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OUT ON LONG ISLAND 



it is a goodly sight to see 

what heaven hath done for this delicious land 

— Byron 



CONXKNTS. 



GENKRAI. INTRODUCTION 

HOW TO REACH LONG ISLAND 

NEAR-BY SEASIDE RESORTS 

SUBURBAN TOWNS 

THE SOUTH SHORE 

THE CENTRAL SECTION 

THE NORTH SHORE 

Georgica Park 43 



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Amagansett 47 

Amityville 26 

Arverne-by-the-Sea 16 

Babylon 28 

Baiting Hollow 57 

Bay Head 39 

Bayport 35 

Bayside 67 

Bayshore 32 

Bayswater 20 

Bellmore 25 

Bellport 35 

Bohemia 57 

Brentwood 55 

Bridgehampton 43 

Brookhaven 35 

Canoe Place 39 

Cedarhurst 21 

Central Park 54 

Central Islip 57 

Centreport 78 

College Point 67 

Cold Spring 76 

Coney Island 13 

Corona 67 

Creedmoor 52 

Cutchogue. 60 

Deer Park 54 

Douglaston 67 

Dunton 51 

Easthampton 45 

Eastport 38 

Edgewood 55 

Far Rockaway 18 

Farmingdale 54 

Fenhurst 21 

Fire Island 30 

Flanders 58 

Floral Park 52 

Flushing 67 

Fort Pond Bay 17 

Freeport 25 

Garden City 52 

Gardiner's Island 65 



Glen Cove 72 

Glen Head 71 

Great Neck 68 

Greenport 61 

Greenlawn 79 

Hempstead 53 

Hicksville 54 

HoUis S' 

Huntington 77 

Hyde Park 52 

Islip 34 

Jamaica 51 

Jamesport 59 

King's Park 80 

Lawrence 20 

Lawrence Beach ... 21 

Lindenhurst 28 

Little Neck 67 

Locust V^alley 73 

Long Beach 22 

Manhassett 68 

Manhattan Beach 13 

Mastic 36 

Massapequa 25 

Manor 57 

Mattituck 60 

Medford 57 

Merrick 25 

Millburn 25 

Mineola 54 

Montauk Point 47 

Moriches 37 

Newtown 67 

Northport 79 

New Suffolk 60 

Oakdale 34 

Ocean Park 16 

Oceanus 17 

Orient 61 

Oldfield Point 82 

Oyster Bay 74 

Patchogue 35 

Peconic 60 



11-23 

50-53 

24-49 

54-65 

66-82 

Pearsalls 24 

Port Jefferson 81 

Ponquogue 39 

Queens 52 

Quogue 38 

Richmond Hill 50 

Robins Island 60 

Rockaway 15 

Rockville Centre 25 

Rocky Point 82 

Riverhead 58 

Ronkonkoma 57 

Roslyn 69 

Sag Harbor 43 

Sands Point 68 

Sayville 34 

Sea Cliff 7' 

Setauket 81 

Shinnecock Hills 41 

Sheepshead Bay 15 

Shelter Island 63 

Smithtown 8i 

Southold 61 

Southampton 42 

Speonk 38 

St. James 81 

St. Johnland 80 

Stony Brook 81 

Valley Stream 24 

Watermills 43 

Wave Crest 17 

Wantagh 25 

Waverly 57 

Westbury 54 

Westhampton 38 

West Deer Park 54 

Whitestone 67 

Williston 54 

Winfield 67 

Woodhaven 50 

Woodsburgh 21 

Woodside 67 

WoodhuU Park 51 

Yaphank 57 



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Somewhere in the romances of art there is the story of a famous 
artist who desired to paint the face of the child Christ. He crossed 
the continent and searched through Palestine, peered into the faces 
of the children of Jerusalem, and among the homes of Nazareth. 
But, finding nowhere the ideal of his dreams, he returned baffled to 
his home and took up again his daily work. And one day, in the 
very street of his own home, he saw the face of his visions, painted 
it upon his canvas, and made his fame immortal. 

For all the years the tired workers and pleasure seekers of New 
York and Brooklyn have been searching the country over for places 
for their summer homes. The White Mountains, the Catskills, the 
Thousand Islands, Saratoga, and Lake George have been thronged 
with tourists from New York, while at their very doors Long Island 
has held in waiting every variety of beauty, scenery of entrancing 
loveliness, air fresh with the salt breezes of the sea and sweetened 
with the balsams of its pines and cedars. The fish have fattened in 
its ponds, and the breakers have thundered on its beaches. 

Great fleets of steamers have carried the lovers of antiquity to 
the old world, that they might see the quaint oddities of its old 
towns, and because the world's vision is always far-sighted and sees 
the distant, while it is blind to the beauty that is near at hand, the 
old doggerel has ever been verified : 

" Madam Dill 

Is ver}' ill, 
And nothing will improve her, 

Until she sees 

The Tuilleries, 
And waddles through the Louvre." 

And yet, Long Island has hills as fair as the Scottish Highlands, 
cliffs that well-nigh rival those of Dover, quaint towns as curious as 
those of Normandy, gable-roofed cottages and windmills as antique 
as those of Holland, while in its summer cities by the sea Vanity 




Fair has as curious masquerades of pleasure seekers as any in the 
old world. 

It is historic ground : battles have here been fought, and great 
frigates have anchored in its harbors. The Dutch here made early 
settlements, and left their relics in house and custom. There are 
old records on church registers of the marriages of those who 
crossed in the Mayflower. Almost every town has its romance of 
exile and heroism ; poets who have sung the songs which echoed 
round the world had their cradles and their graves here. Favored 
associates of royalty have selected this spot for their homes, and 
statesmen who were prominent in the early councils of the nation as 
well as military leaders in the cause of independence have sprung 
from the sturdy lineage of its families. The shores are rich with the 

wreckage of the sea, and supersti- 
tion has its tale of wonder in every 
.,. village. There are towns whose 
streets are quaint with the archi- 
tecture of the old world, and not 
a few natives trace back an unbroken descent from the good 
old days a round century before the time 

"When George the Third was king." 

Long Island is rich in legendary relics of the Indian days. The 
ashes of the camp-fires are hardly yet cool, and the wild blood of 
the Indian aborigines has hardly yet fully mingled with that of the 
" pale face." 

New York has become one of the great cities of the world, 
because it is the gateway of a continent. The sea has dowried it 
with riches. And yet Long Island is its only sea-board. There are 
States not larger than Long Island. One hundred and twenty miles 
in length, from eight to twenty broad, within this area there is all 
that heart can wish and industry desire. Through the wise enter- 
prise of the Long Island Railroad Company, with its several hundred 
trains a day, this wonderland, so long unknown, is taking its right- 
ful place as one of the fairest portions of the Empire State. Great 
resorts grow populous. The tide of emigration is setting eastward 
from the metropolis, industry is tickling the swift island with the 
plough, and it responds with laughing harvests. Wealth is lining 
the shores with villas, and the great middle classes are finding 
homes in the pleasant island villages contiguous to the cities. With- 
out any of the artificial excitement of " Western booms," there has 
been a phenomenal growth in the towns and villages of the island, 

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so that " Out on the Island " now is a famiUar phrase to the dwellers 
in the great cities of New York and Brooklyn. 

Long Island may be conveniently divided into three divisions. 
From the same starting-points in Long Island City and Brooklyn the 
trains leave for the central portion, the south shore and the north 
shore. 

The central part is a plain, and in places, for miles one passes 
over great prairie-like reaches, dotted with forests of cedar and pine, 
with soil clean and easily worked. John Randolph said that the soil 
of Virginia was poor by nature and ruined by cultivation, and so to 
the casual tourist the soil of Long Island seems unfertile ; but turn 
it with the plough, and throw the seed into it, and it rewards toil 
with plenty. It seems as if Nature, knowing how tired human brains 
would get in the great hurryings of the city, had set this great 
central belt midway here between the sea and the Sound, as a sani- 
tarium for the healing of sick nerves and spent brains ; for here are 
" The murmuring pines and the hemlocks," 

and in this porous soil there is no feeding-place of malaria, and the 
air, washed clean with the sweet baptisms of the sea, brings invigora- 
tion in every breeze, while there is room enough for the tired 
thousands who at night would escape the cities' heats, to touch old 
Mother Nature and rise up strong for the new day's work. 

The south side is the sea side of the island ; but as if, in her 
great kindness to this " snug little, tight little island," Nature desired 
to guard it from the raw, untempered sea, she has made a break- 
water between the island and the ocean, and behind this outer ram- 
part she has for sixty miles placed the Great South Bay, which is a 
kind of inner lake, with waters smooth and sunny on summer days, 
but having in it a touch of the old fury of the sea when occasion 
calls. Along the shores of this bay there are inlets, bays, and coves ; 
into it the streams run, and 

along it there are villages ■' — '= "" 

which once were filled with 
those who tilled the land 
and spread their nets within 
the waters, who made the tov/n quaint with curious streets and 
lanes, and kept alive the customs of the good old days. In recent 
years the summer throngs have filled these villages. The dog-cart 
and the tally-ho are seen along the streets ; the old clocks, spinning- 
wheels and warming-pans have been bought and are now 

" Hung up for ornament ; " 
the village pastures are cut up into villa lots ; great hotels are in the 





places where the fishers dried their nets, and land that was once 
given away by the acre is now sold by the foot. But Nature has 
been very prodigal of her charms here upon this old island. The 
Great South Bay is a splendid institution ; but even that w^ould have 
been overdone if it had bounded the island along its entire length. 
And so, at either end of it the sea comes up and has direct dealings 
with the island, and without a foot of intervening sand or island it 
pours the whole torrent of three thousand miles of surge and swell 
upon the beaches. And what superb things these beaches are ! As 

smooth as ivory and almost 
as white. No quicksands here, 
nor treacherous undertow of 
backward sweeping currents, 
but good, honest, hearty, noisy 
breakers, pounding on beaches 
hard as adamant ! Nowhere 
on the Atlantic coast are there greater reaches of white sand, 
and along these magnificent shores there are great hotels and 
small hotels, every wonderment of summer merriment and pleasure, 
bands of world-wide fame, a great phantasmagoria, to which half 
the multitudes of the great cities go, and to whose dazzling brill- 
iancy of scene the tourists of the world come to be amazed. And 
at the other end Nature gives another turn to her kaleidoscope, 
and here she has built behind the beaches high hills of sand, as 
though she knew that the ocean was a treacherous thing, and needed 
some mighty rampart to keep her back from the great continent. 
From these one looks down and out upon the sea. Had he but 
vision strong enough he could look straight across to the old world 
without one intervening thing. The sea is flecked with sails, and 
tired watchers on the deck see these white cliffs as the first token of 
their voyage's end, and on and on these beaches go, eastward and 
northward, the cliffs broken here and there, until at last the end is 
reached in Montauk Point, where the island culminates in a great 
cliff of grandeur. 

These things are on the seaward side. Backward the cliffs slope 
with gentle declivity into fertile fields. There are winding roads 
leading to pleasant towns, not spoiled by art or fashion, but having 
a simple life and simple ways, taking just pride in the relics of an 
honorable past, not anxious for rapid growth, but having the old- 
time virtues of hospitality and friendliness. 

The north side of the island faces Long Island Sound. It is a 
noted place, and not even the far-famed St. George's Channel is 
such a waterway as this. The traffic of New England and not a 



little of the ocean commerce passes here ; for many years the Sound 
steamers, at early morn and eve, have passed up and down with their 
stately beauty. There have been many tragedies on this water- 
course, and it is famous not only for its exceeding beauty, but for 
the memorable events that have happened here. Long Island along 
the north shore is bold and precipitous. The Sound makes many 
indentations of deep bays or harbors, and on either side of this the 
land is high and wooded with the finest growth of timber. There 
are villages and farms, pleasant villas and homes embowered with 
trees, winding roads skirting the bays with little vessels in the 
harbors, and along the shore shipyards where once great ships were 
built. The grandeur here is not of the sea, as it is upon the 
other side, but is of mingled land and water. Bevond, northward, 
are the shores of Connecticut, just far enough away to have the 
misty glamour which Nature loves, with her artless coquetry, to 
spread before her face. There is the glimmer of city spires, the 
white gleam of town and village, the upward rising land, which 
stands like lesser mountains against the sky. And near at hand are 
the blue waters of the Sound, not always smooth, but having way- 
ward moods of passion when the storm is' on. For the lover of 
beauty the north side is rich. There is grandeur in these high 
ramparts of land which separate the harbors. The shores are 
irregular, iron-bound with rock and boulder, on which the sea weeds 
have hung their draperies, while there are pleasant surprises of 
woodland nooks, winding paths and roads, with fertile farms such as 
one sees on New England hills, with soil as warm and rich as 
Nature ever made. There are staid and prosperous towns here, 
having all the comforts that years of prosperous industry and 
enterprise can bring. The invasion of the city is already felt. At 
morning and night the depots __^ 
are surrounded with the car- 
riages of those who go daily to 
the city to their business ; and 
year by year the summer homes 

increase, the tide of travel swells, as the incomparable beauties and 
delights of the island are discovered. At the farther end of the 
island Shelter Island stands to 

"Sentinel enchanted land." 

Beyond is still another island, and both of these have their own 
legends and traditions. There is no need that citizens of New York 
and Brooklyn should live within crowded tenements, or waste half 
their living on expensive rents, when for a small sum a home can be 




bought or built in some one of the many towns of Long Island. 
Summer boarding places can be found within easy distance of the 
cities at moderate cost, and men can go to and fro at small expense 
of time and money. 

Drawing-room cars are attached to all the principal trains of 
the Long Island Railroad. They are handsomely appointed and 
offer the traveler every convenience and comfort. The island, 
from one end to the other, is well supplied with the dailv news- 
papers and periodicals by the Long Island News Company. New 
York morning papers are delivered at early hours every day and 
are sold on all the trains. During the season special Sunday trains 
are run to insure early distribution of newspapers. 

Long Island offers every variety of scenery, an unrivaled climate 
and easy accessibility to the great cities. The time is not far distant 
when the entire island will be a suburban New York and Brooklyn, 
and if one is missed from his accustomed place in the great city the 
answer to the question, " Where is he ? " will bring the response, 

"Out on Long Island." 





HOW TO REACH LONG ISLAND. 

Railroad time-table, while a very necessary document, 
is not always as "plain as a pike-staff." The genius 
who is to prepare a table, that those who run may 
read, has not yet been born, but a few hints may 
be given that will be of service to strangers mak- 
ing their first visit out on Long Island. From lower New 
York a ferry boat can be taken every half hour at James 
Slip, and during the summer months, an annex from foot of 
Pine Street, to Long Island City ; and by way of the Bridge 
or any of the ferries to Brooklyn, connecting with surface cars or 
the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad to the Flatbush Avenue station 
of the Long Island Railroad. From up-town New York, Long 
Island City can be reached by the ferry at 34th Street. At Long 
Island City and at the Flatbush Avenue stations complete informa- 
tion can be obtained in regard to the departure of all trains. 
The stations at these points are new and magnificently appointed 
for railroad purposes. The one at Long Island City was com- 
pleted in 1S91. It has been built with special reference to the 
comfort and convenience of the traveling public. The waiting- 
room is the largest of any in or about New York City. It has been 
so arranged that passengers can find their respective trains without 
confusion or crowding. Here are the operating offices of the 
Long Island Railroad Company. The Flatbush Avenue depot 
constructed this year has all the modern appointments of a first- 
class railway station. All trains from Brooklyn stop at the Bed- 
ford and East New York stations. 



NBAR-BY SEASIDE RESORTS. 

For years after the New Jersey ocean resorts were in the full 
tide of prosperity the broad, inviting beaches of southern Long 
Island were unpopulated, and, with few exceptions, almost unvisited. 
But in the seventies it dawned on the mind of Mr. Austin Corbin that 
right here, within a half-hour's ride of New York, was a series of 
the finest beaches in America — yes, in the world — and he resolved 
to develop them into watering-places, with what degree of success 



the world knows. It spoils a day to go to Long Branch and home 
again, but the tired man of business can run down to Manhattan 
Beach with his family in thirty minutes, after office hourS; take 
a bath in the surf, get an excellent dinner, listen to the music 
and see the fireworks, and be home and in bed an hour earlier than 
he would be if he spent the evening at the theatre. Coney Island is 
the most cosmopolitan of places. There is a sliding social scale 
extending from the West End to the elegant and exclusive Oriental 
Hotel at the East End, with its adjacent miles of protected beach. 
Nowhere in America is there so famous a seaside resort as Man- 
hattan Beach. It is the metropolis among summer cities of the 
country as New York is among the commercial cities. It is no 
unusual sight on a pleasant summer's day to witness over 100,000 
people at this magnificent resort, and yet so large are the two hotels 
and so extensive the grounds about them that every one can have 
full measure of the enjoyment which he seeks. The Manhattan and 
Oriental are two of the largest and best hotels on Long Island, the 
former accommodating five hundred people and the latter seven 
hundred. These houses are equipped with every modern improve- 
ment, and the grounds they stand in are beautified with lawns and 
gardens. The cuisine is excellent, and both variety and abundance 
are assured. A broad promenade extends before them, furnished 
with seats that young people like to occupy when the moon rises, 
and it often takes a surprisingly long time for the moon to come up. 
The ride from the city is in itself a pleasant thing on a warm day, 
the temperature seeming to fall as the open cars — vou can ride in 
the parlor cars if you prefer — speed over the green fields and 
through the cool and rustling groves. Arrived at Manhattan, many 
pleasures offer, chief among which is the bathing. The whole coast 
of Long Island is washed by a branch of the Gulf Stream, so the 
water has never the icy chill that shrivels the person who takes his 
sea baths north of Cape Cod. There is a good surf, too; not so 
heavy as to make an undertow, or to render it unsafe for ladies and 
children, but a good, bracing roll to the water that puts every one in 
a glow. Bathers at Manhattan have the advantage of a detached 
structure that screens them from promiscuous observation. Excel- 
lent music is to be heard at the spacious music pavilion, which 
is splendidly arranged with reference to acoustic properties, and 
Gilmore's famous band is frequently supplemented during the 
season by choral societies and distinguished soloists, and on Sundays 
clergymen of celebrity conduct divine worship. The amphitheatre 
is one of the finest in the world, finely decorated within and without. 
As for Gilmore, everybody knows him. He is to the brass band 



what Theodore Thomas is to the orchestra, and the rich tone and 
grand sonority of his music has never been equalled by any other 
band in the country. From the time of his connection with the 
great jubilees in Boston, Mr. Gilmore has been the best-known 
musician in America, and his name has never been associated with a 
failure. So great an attraction are his incomparable concerts that 
thousands of people visit Manhattan Beach during the summer just 
to hear the music. Fire dramas, under supervision of C. T. Brock 
& Co. of the Crystal Palace, London, are enacted on nearly every 
summer night in the great inclosure near the hotel. They are 
unquestionably the finest exhibitions of pyrotechnic display in the 
world. 

Back of Manhattan Beach is the narrow Sheepshead Bay, thus 
named because of the fish known as sheepshead that abound there. 
It is a rendezvous for yachtsmen, and now that the cottagers who 
dwell on its shores have solved the drainage problem and have 
begun to beautify their streets and holdings, the village of Sheeps- 
head Bay has sprung into deserved prominence. The local popu- 
lation is greatly increased through the hot season by a summer 
colony of city folks, and on racing days thousands visit the Coney 
Island Jockey Club track, which is one of the amplest and best 
managed in the country. It is the one track in the State where 
the elite of New York and Brooklyn may be seen in large 
numbers, especially on the day of the great Suburban race, which 
is recognized as the " Derby Day " of America. 

Rockaway, the name of a long, sandy peninsula, is a corruption 
of Rekanawohaha, "Our Place of Laughing Waters." It was, a 
generation ago, a place of local celebrity, and was largely visited by 
city excursionists. Rockaway is still very popular. Clubs have 
located there, pleasant cottages have been put up, and the hotels 
have been improved. Near the centre of the beach, among the 
dunes, stood the big hotel, the largest in the world, and a veritable 
elephant on the hands of its builders. It was never used, the open- 
ing having been legally prevented, and its doors being for years 
tied with legal red tape. A few years ago the hotel was removed 
and the land purchased and laid out by the Rockaway Park Im- 
provement Company in villa plots, which makes it one of the most 
desirable places on the island. The bathing is fine, and back of 
the peninsula there is still water for swimmers and oarsmen who 
do not feel equal to buffeting with big waves. Music, museums, 
merry-go-rounds and refreshments entertain the crowds. 

A famous poem was written several years ago by John Henry 
Sharpe, entitled " Rockaway," and was set to music by Henry 



Russell, the first four lines being the refrain to each of the stanzas. 
The words are as follows : 

ROCKAWAY. 



On old Long Island's sea-girt shore, 

Man)- an hour I've whil'd away, 
In listening to the breakers roar 

That wash the beach at Rockaway. 
Transfix'd I've stood while Nature's lyre 

In one harmonious concert broke, 
And catching its Promethean fire 

My inmost soul to rapture woke. 

Oh how delightful 'tis to stroll, 

Where murm'ring winds and waters meet. 
Marking the billows as they roll. 

And break resistless at your feet : 
To watch )foung Iris, as she dips 

Her mantle in the sparkling dew, 
And chased bv Sol, away she trips. 

O'er the horizon's quiv'ring blue. 

To hear the startling night-winds sigh, 

As dreaming twilight lulls to sleep ; 
While the pale moon reflects from high. 

Her image in the might}^ deep : 
Majestic scene where Nature dwells. 

Profound in everlasting love, 
While her unmeasur'd music swells, 

The vaulted firmament above. 

Following along the Rockaway coast is Ocean Park, the site of 
a camp of the Rockaway Indians, and more recently a part of the 
estate known as Plum Place. Indian and revolutionary relics have 
been found there in abundance. The ground is high and dry, and 
commands beautiful sea-views that are enhanced by the foreground 
vistas of foliage, the main avenue, of double width and nearly a 
mile long, being lined with trees. Ocean Park is laid out in build- 
ing lots, and the cottages thus far erected bespeak for it a select 
society. 

Nameoke (the corruption of a word meaning " To the Water's 
Edge ") joins Rockaway village on the southwest, and is a charm- 
ing spot. 

Arverne-by-the-Sea, forty minutes from New York City, is the 
latest addition to our summer resorts. It is absolutely healthful, 
deliciously cool, and having a southerly frontage on the ocean, 
the air is free from the dampness peculiar to the Long Branch 
coast. A great " boom " has been projected in its favor by real 
estate dealers and others, and perhaps no suburban resort has a more 

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hopeful future before it. It stands on the Rockaway peninsula, 
which is five miles or more in length, and varies in width from, 
one-eighth to one-half of a mile. A fine large hotel, with room 
for four hundred guests, handsomely built and surrounded with a 
twenty-foot piazza, forms the nucleus of this village. Over one 
hundred cottages have recently been built along the broad and 
regularly planned avenues that lead to the hotel and to the ocean. 
Of the two hundred rooms in the hotel there is not one that does 
not command a view over the sea. Cedars have been planted in 
large numbers beside these avenues, and are a novelty in shade 
trees. Arverne is prettily named, and is going to live up to its 
name, which it might not do if some soulless land-gral)ber had 
dubbed it Jonesville or Thomsonborough to commemorate his 
ownership. It stands immediately upon the ocean, and has been 
likened to Cape May and Pataloa, for the water rolls in with a good 
swing, and the beach has so gradual a slope that the bather may 
choose his own depth. Bath-houses have been built at the end of 
each of the ocean avenues for the sole use of the cottagers and their 
friends, but arrangements are likewise ample for the guests of the 
hotel ; and, en passant, it should be remarked that this hostelry 
ofters every comfort that the most exacting might reasonably expect. 



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More exclusive, and perhaps better known by reason of its 
priority of settlement, is Wave Crest, standing on a green-topped 
bluff, which resists the encroachments of the sea that have worked 
such frequent changes in the form and dimensions of the sandy 
islands elsewhere. It commands a fine view because of this ele- 
vation, and likewise serves as a landmark to passing vessels. The 
sight from the headland is unrivaled, and takes in the whole scene 
of ocean and bay from the near-by inland hamlets to Long Beach 
on the one hand to New York City on the other, with Oceanus 



and Rockaway in the foreground, the coast of New Jersey and the 
Neversink Mountains in the far-off distance. The site is historic, 
and was claimed at an early date by one of the frequent Smith 
family, of Hem])stead, as the spot for his acres and villa. In 1880 




WAVE CREST, FAR ROCKAWAY. 



a number of gentlemen bought a square mile or so of this property, 
laid it out as a park, inclosed it, stationed lodge-keepers at the 
gates, and have since built one hundred cottages, many of which 
are occupied through the year. As at Tu.xedo, Short Hills, and 
other parked villages, the society is exclusive. No lot is less than 
a quarter of an acre in extent, and the surface is diversified with 
lawns, groves, serpentine paths, and winding shell-roads. All the 
houses are new, and one of them stands upon the site of the old 
Boscobel House, so named in honor of Charles II. The drainage is 
perfect, as the buildings stand at a level of thirty feet above high-tide 
mark, and the general health of the community is, therefore, excel- 
lent. Still water bathing is had at the foot of the bluff, but a ferry- 
boat transports all who desire, across the strip of bay, here a quarter 
of a mile wide, that lies inside the Rockaway Key, and there surf 
enough can be had to satisfy the strongest or the most exacting. 
Before Long Branch could claim any social consequence, Far 
Rockaway was the most famous watering-place in this country. 
Newport alone excepted. The Marine Hotel that stood there forty 
years ago was a great hotel for its time, and its register bore the 
names of presidents, governors, mayors, authors, soldiers, and so 

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on, down to common little European princes, who were not above 
eating clams and struggling with other articles of the traditional 
diet of the Long Islander. With the burning of this hotel. Far 
Rockaway lapsed into a state of innocuous desuetude, and slept a 
Rip Van Winkle sleep, forgotten by its neighbors ; but with the 
development of watering-places around it, a spark of enthusiasm 
woke this little village, too, and it has taken on new importance as a 
resort, and is increasing as a place of permanent homes. It is but 
thirty-five minutes from Long Island City, and although the sea winds 
are strong in cold weather, and the ocean storms are magnificent to 
witness, the temperature is not only cooler than that of the cities in 
summer, but the thermometer never falls quite so low in winter as it 
does in the interior. For this fact the Gulf Stream is responsible. 
Far Rockaway Bay extends before the village, offering safe water 
for bathers and boaters ; even children may be trusted to row about 
this inlet, and just across the sands, that separate it from the sea, 
roars and seethes the ocean. The sheltered waters of Jamaica Bay 
are less than half a mile distant on the west. All kinds of hotels 
and restaurants are found there, and for the benefit of the local 




populace there are 
shops, markets, schools, 
churches, telegraph 
offices, telephones, elec- 
tric lights, a water system 
and a court house. The 
site is on ground of 
moderate elevation, supporting a natural growth of sweet-scented 
bay and larger bushes and trees. Cottages are multiplying rapidly, 
and the value of real estate is rising. 

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Between Wave Crest and VVestville, showing a front of clean 
cottages on Jamaica Bay, is Bayswater, a paradise for fishermen. 
Ten years ago there were three houses there, now there are over a 
hundred. Indian traditions are associated with this place, and not 
long ago nine skeletons were unearthed, all with marks of toma- 
hawks on their skulls. These bones seemed to be of a race of 
giants, for the smallest of the skeletons, that of a woman, was 
seven feet two inches in height. Boating is safe in this land-locked 
water, and one can hardly imagine a more de- 
lightful row or sail than this offers on a moon- 
light night, when the low shores twinkle with 
lamps, and the small islands seem almost to 
hang in air, so perfectly are sky, moon and stars 
mirrored in the still water. 

Lawrence, a mile back from Far Rockaway, 
is a handsome village with telegraphic and tele- 
phonic touch with the city, boating, bathing, 
fishing and sleeping — the latter an item worth 
considering by the fagged and brain-sick busi- 
ness man; for cool, pure air, the lull of the distant 
surf and the plash of wind through the cedars 
will do a deal toward the cure of 
insomnia. Most of the Lawrentians 
own elegant houses and live in them 
through the year. They are wealthy 
and well-situated; therefore they 
should be hap- 
py. A h a n d- 
s o m e club 
house has re- 
cently' been 
erected which 
contains school 
rooms and a 
large hall for 
lectures, danc- 
ing, entertain- 
ments, etc. The 
village is one 
great garden, 
blazing with 
flowers and 
ornamental 



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IK 





shrubbery, while broad avenues lead to Cedarhurst, Lawrence Beach, 
Westville and Far Rockaway. With its advantages and its society, 
Lawrence may justly claim to be one of the most stylish resorts 
on Long Island. Few places of its size contain so many costly 
residences. 

At Cedarhurst, between Lawrence and Woodsburgh, the country 
is undulating and fertile, and, although the name hints at cedars 




THE BOULEVARD — LAWRENCE. 



only, there is abundance of oak, maple, willow, acacia and pine. 
The sea views and bay views are fine, and are enhanced by the 
rustic beauty of the foreground. An equable climate and plenty 
of ozone are likewise assured to its residents, and sixty handsome 
villas attest the appreciation with which certain influential families 
regard this delightful place, many of the villas being occupied the 
year through. The headquarters of the Rockaway Hunt Club is 
an imposing club house in Queen Anne style, and it contains every- 
thing needed by the members from a kitchen to a post-office. There 
are polo grounds, tennis courts, gymnasium, hunting stables, game 
and fish preserves and kennels. The " meets " of the hunters are 
picturesque affairs, and bring out large numbers of people. 

From Cedarhurst to the main line of the railroad, Woods- 
burgh and Fenhurst (formerly Hewletts), are rapidly traversed, 
and the tourist has glimpses of quiet streets, country shops, modest 
little churches and cozy cottages. Woodsburgh is so named from 
the late Samuel Wood, of Brooklyn, a rich and philanthropic gentle- 
man who aimed to establish there a town that should excel 
Garden City in size and beauty. The estates have been in litigation, 



but now that perfect titles to land are secured, this town will 
rank among the most desirable places of residence on Southern 
Long Island. Boulevard Avenue is one hundred feet wide and 
lined with shade trees all the way to the shore. 

The last of these near-by seaside resorts is Long Beach, a 
narrow island seven miles long, that guards Hempstead Bay, with 
its grassy islands, from the direct assaults of the sea. It is twenty- 
four miles from New York, and " one of the brightest in the string 
of ocean pearls" that adorn the Long Island coast. The beach 
has a barely perceptible slope, and is so hard and smooth that 
driving, horseback exercise and walking are attended with no 
fatigue, while the sea that tumbles on the shore in magnificent 
breakers is as clear and bright as crystal. Long Beach is popular 
with people who seek a cpiiet retreat, but even on days when there 
is a crowd from town there is no noise or roughness. The big hotel, 
in Queen Anne style, is one of the best-built and best-kept of the 
many hostelries between Brooklyn and Montauk, and among its 
guests are and have been statesmen, men of the professions and 
notables of all kinds from different parts of the country. It is nine 
hundred feet long by one hundred and fifty wide, its verandas are 
broad enough to dance upon, the conveniences and comforts are 
such as are found in the best city hotels. Heating, ventilation and 
lighting have been scientifically adjusted. Through the season an 
orchestra furnishes music. A number of pretty and roomy cottages 
are for rent there to those who prefer a degree of privacy that the 
hotel cannot insure, or who have large families. They can dine at 
the hotel or they may keep house, as suits their convenience and 
pleasure. The Marine Railway runs to the east end of the island, 
where, on breezy Point Lookout, which is thrust into the blue 
Atlantic, there is another hotel and group of cottages. Many of 
the cottagers own their yachts, and the season there is enlivened 
with sailing, fishing, bathing, games and dances. 




THE SOUTH SHORE. 

THE south side of Long Island is the seaward side. The 
Great South Bay and the great Atlantic have made 
it attractive to tourists. Its facilities for boating and 
fishing have added much to its charms. The Montauk divis- 
ion of the Long Island Railroad passes through or near the 
business centres of the villages, giving such excellent rail- 
road accommodations that for fifty miles at least the island 
is a veritable suburb of the metropolis. The first station 
after leaving Jamaica is the enterprising settlement of 
Springfield, and a short distance beyond is Rosedale, both 
places offering inducements to the home seekers. At Valley 
Stream the railroad branches to Far Rockaway, and at 
Pearsalls to Long Beach, and then, without divergences, continues 
to Sag Harbor — one hundred miles from Brooklyn — the terminus. 
To stop and particularize about every place along this delightful 




FERRY AT FAR ROCKAWAY. 



route would only weary the reader. Naturally many of the south 
side villages are much alike in general characteristics. All are noted 
for healthfulness, a feature already dwelt upo^. All have access 
to the water. And as to the attractiveness of each, such as the 
location of streets, the architecture of the houses, and the nearness 
to the depots, etc., these are matters which appeal with varying 
force to different individuals. For a distance of some twenty 
miles, from Valley Stream to Amityville and beyond, the geograph- 
ical features are similar, and all the villages in that section are 
especially favored by being within easy reach of the cities. It is 



true that the ocean waves do not roll in upon the main-land, nor is 
there a broad sweep of bay, but there is compensation in the hundred 
inlets and coves and numerous islands, making not only a paradise 
for the amateur sportsman, but an El Dorado for the honest fisher- 
men of the towns who derive their sustenance from these productive 
waters. From Freeport and its vicinity come the luscious Rockaway 
oysters, and in these waters are caught the finest blue-fish that are 
sent to market, while all the region is alive with ponds and trout 
streams famous for what they offer. In July the summer flight of 
aquatic and meadow birds commences, and then the gunners come 
in for their share of the sport, and as the fall approaches the ducks 
and geese appear. It is indeed a charming country. The farmers 
of the region are a well-to-do class, the villages are wide awake, and 
are growing with a rapidity that is simply marvelous. At Freeport a 
tract of land of thirty acres, north of the railroad, called Randall 
Park, has been handsomely laid out, and already thirty modern cot- 
tages have been erected, while to the south is Woodcleft Park, 
extending to the water, finely located, with broad avenues, high 
elevation, natural foliage, and a series of small lakes with direct out- 
let to the bay. Many handsome cottages have been erected. The 
Prospect Gun Club, composed of prominent New York and Brooklyn 
gentlemen, is located at Freeport. At Rockville Centre extensive 
real estate transfers have been made which promise large results in 
the way of local improvements. Many attractive cottages have 
already been erected and several good boarding houses. A new 
school house, with accommodations for six hundred pupils, is one of 
the substantial acquisitions of the place. Oceanville, a contiguous 
settlement, contains a cluster of houses, over twenty of which are 
occupied by retired "Down East" shipmasters. The conduits of the 
Brooklyn Water Works reservoirs and pumping stations are in this 
vicinity. The extension of the water system from Rockville Centre 
to Massapequa Lake has just been completed, and will give to 
Brooklyn an abundant supply of most excellent water. Pearsalls, 
Millburn (before re-christening, Baldwins), Bellmore, Wantagh 
(formerly Ridgewood), Merrick, are all desirable summer villages 
with many attractive features. At Merrick are the famous Meth- 
odist camp-meeting grounds. 

On Long Island, with its superior Indian nomenclature, there is 
no excuse for giving " North " and " South " prefixes and the com- 
monplace names of individuals. " Massapequa " is the pleasant- 
sounding name which has replaced " South Oyster Bay," and the 
place is not less delightful than its attractive name. That portion of 
the village which is about the new station is not imposing, but a few 



minutes' walk will take one to the great South Side highway, known 
as the "Country Road," along which on either side are stately sum- 
mer residences, many of them owned by New York millionaires and 
families whose names are historic in the annals of the State. Here 
is Massapequa Lake, and to the south of it the new Massape(}ua 
Hotel, a worthy applicant for public favor, and one of the most com- 
modious and best-arranged hotels on the island. It o\erlooks the 
Great South Bay, which is reached by a natural canal within a stone's 
throw of the hotel. The place has become one of the most popular 
resorts on the island. Many hundred building lots have already 
been sold. On the spacious grounds about the hotel handsome villas 
have been erected. A mile to the southwest, and near the bay lies 
the village of Seaford, containing a few stores, shops and dwellings 
all together wearing such an air of neatness as at once to captivate 




MA.SSAPEOl'A HOTEL. 



the visitor. In this vicinity is the site of a historic fortification 
thrown up by the Indians, on the only occasion known in history 
wherein the Long Island aborigines assumed a warlike attitude 
against the whites. The drives in the vicinity are superb, and near 
by are several large trout ponds. Three miles to the east is Amity- 
ville, a thriving town, which has come to the front within a few years 
past as a very popular resort, and already the Amityville Land 
Improvement Company, composed of local capitalists, have purchased 
one hundred and sixty-five acres of land Iving on the east side of 
Amityville Creek, and have divided it into building lots with broad 
avenues extending to the bay. Just west of the village over one 
hundred and fifty acres have been purchased, which will be developed 
in a similar manner. On the bay front has been built a large pavilion 
with ample docks and bathing houses. Amityville does not cater to 

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the wealthy and exclusive class, her citizens preferring to give 
greeting to people of moderate circumstances, who demand comfort 
rather than style, and who enjoy summer life there because they are 




MASSAPEQUA STATION. 



free to seek pleasure without bowing to the mandates of fashion. 
The Dominican Convent is located there, also the Brunswick Home 
for nervous invalids, and the Long Island Home Hotel, an institution 
for the mildly insane. 




PAVILION AT AMITYVILLE. 
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THE GREAT SOUTH BAY RESORTS. 

FOLLOWIN(i the highway which leads to Sag 
Harbor, and over which the stages rah in ante- 
railroad times, we pass Lindenhurst, a thrifty 
Cierman village which started under the name of 
'^^^^'^ Hreslau, and come to Babylon, and thence on for 
another twenty miles through probably the wealthi- 
est and most aristocratic, and to many the most 
attractive, section on all Long Island. Nature did 
much for this region, but man, with large prodi- 
_^=5^^;- ~" ' gality, has worked wonderful transformation scenes. 
"^^^^^fe. These wide-awake modern villages hug close the 

'^^^^S^- shores of the Great South Bay, a body of water 

^:'?'^' which for sailing and fishing cannot be surpassed 

"^^ in all this country. Gaze upon it any summer's 

■^~- day and a hundred cat-boats meet the eve. They 

...:= are the safest and fastest boats built and the most 

useful too, for when not in commission to pleasure-seekers they 
are decked in fisherman's garb and go into actual service with no 
international fishery question to interfere. In the season the Great 




SNIPE SHOOTING ON GREAT SOl'IH BAY. 



South Bay abounds in geese, brant, canvas-back, broad-bills, red- 
heads, black-heads, and mallards. In June the blue-fish, the gamest 
of our salt-water fish, come into the bay to remain all summer, 
and in the fall and winter the oyster beds yield large harvests. 



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-.cSS^S^^ 



WESTMINSTER KENNEL CLUB. 



Where could there be a more desirable shore upon which to spend 

a vacation or to make a permanent residence? 'Tis not alone the 

bay that makes attractive these island villages. This part of the 

island is rich with trees and foliage. Poplar, oaks, pines, and breezy 

maples, with now 
and then a sad-hued 
cedar in their midst, 
abound. Trees line 
the drives and lanes 
and make them beau- 
tiful, and wealthy 
land-owners have 
improved the main 
thoroughfares, so 
that no city park 
offers such superb 

driveways as along this twenty-mile stretch through a summer city 

of cottages in a never-ending, picturesque chain. 

Babylon is forty miles from New York. It is aristocratic in 

outward appearance, and has been compared to Newport and other 

fashionable seaside resorts, but no comparisons can do it justice. 

It is a Long Island town which gives generous hospitality to all 

who come within its limits. It is fashionable, 

but not exclusive. There is gaiety, healthful 

recreation, and pleasures of every kind. Its 

location for summer enjoyment is perfect ; for, 

under all circumstances, there are cool breezes 

from the bay and ocean, and yet it is far 

enough back from the Atlantic to escape the 

direct sea mists. In the village proper, which 

numbers nearly three thousand inhabitants, are 

large stores and numerous cottages, handsome 

but unpretentious, while near by are palatial 

homes amid extensive parks, owned by wealthy 

New Yorkers. North of the depot a half hour's 

ride is the famous Westminster Kennel Club 

Preserve, where are to be found some of the 

best pointers and retrievers in the country. The 

Club has a large membership of well-known 

and influential New York gentlemen, among the 

number being J. De Forest Grant, C. D. B. 

Wagstaff, and J. G. K. Duer. Further on are the 

mansions of the late August Belmont, Austin 

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Corbin, and many other gentlemen prominent in financial circles. 
Trout ponds are to be found on many of the estates. Much can 
be said of the superior hotel accommodations at Babylon. The 
Argyle is one of the most unique and picturesque hotels in the 
country. Argyle Park, consisting of seventy acres of land, has 
many handsome cottages. It is intersected with winding paths 
and drives, shaded with numerous trees, having in its midst a beau- 
tiful lake of twenty-five acres. There is a large casino, containing 










DEER IN PADUOCK 




a billiard hall, gymnasium, and 
reading room. 

Babylon is the harbor point 
of embarkation for one of the 
most unique summer resorts on 
the Atlantic coast — Fire Island. 
One of the first writers to bring 
this place into prominence was 
James Gordon Bennett the 
elder. He was enthusiastic over 
his visit, and the verdict which 
he pronounced through the col- 
umns of his paper has been 
accepted by thousands of de- 
lighted tourists. Way back in 




SOUTH SIDE CLUB. 



1855 David Sturgiss Sprague \ 
Sammis opened a chowder ; 
house near the Hght-house, | 
on the strip of sand which I 
makes the ocean border of ! 
the Great South Bay, and | 
from that day to this the ' 
genial Boniface has kept 
open house in summer. 1 
From the small chowder 

house has been evolved by gradual development the present com- 
modious Surf Hotel. The processes of annually adding to the 
house were not calculated to give beauty or architectural display, 
but it did give abundance of room and all the conveniences found 
in the more pretentious hotels. Broad covered walks connect the 
hotel on one side with the bay, and on the other with the ocean. 
There are miles of these shady walks, some of them leading to the 
cottages which are in close proximity to the hotel, and as the soil 
is sandy and unattractive, there is no desire to leave Mr. Samtnis's 
plank-walks, except at the beach, where the well-fed boarder spends 
most of his time when not sailing and fishing on the bay. ;^XMert 
is a fine surf, and the bathing cannot be excelled. One of the 
points of interest on this weather-beaten coast is Fire Island Signal 
Station, from which ocean steamers are sighted and the announce- 
ment made in New York four hours before the vessel reaches her 
dock. Mr. Patrick Keegan is the operator in charge. He has 
never been on board one of the large steamers, and says if he 
should see one passing through the " Narrows " he could not identify 
it, so accustomed has he become to distinguishing ocean steamers at 
long distances. The tracks of the ocean-flyers on an average are 



thirteen miles from the observatory, and Mr. Keegan can only iden- 
tify a vessel by a most careful observation of minute details, such as 
the position of the smoke-stack, the rigging, manner of carrying 
sails, and general outline of the steamer. From one i)ort-hole in the 
lookout-room at a certain angle he watches for a steamer of the 
Cunard Line, and from another the Inman, and so on. The ].lace 
is well worth a visit. A steamboat makes regular trips during the 
summer from Mr. Samrais's dock to Babylon, a pleasant trip of 
seven miles, connecting with trains east and west. The steamboat 
wharf and railroad depot at Babylon are connected by a horse car 
line. A few miles to the west of Fire Island is Jesse Smith's 
famous chowder house, the "Armory," on Oak Island Beach, and 
near by are the headquarters of the Wawayanda and Short Beach 
Clubs, and on Oak Island proper is a settlement of cottagers. 




DKIVE IN BAYSHORE. 



Returning to the main-land and continuing the journey east- 
ward, it is easy to see that Bayshore and Islip are conspicuously 
attractive villages, practically joining each other, and within only a 
few miles of Babylon. If anything, the scenery round about is 
more entrancing than at Babylon. The villages have many ponds, 
while running brooks and long inlets cut their way through the 
green marshes up to the higher lands. These streams and necks 
of land formed by the inlets are bristling with their musical names, 
handed down from the Indians who once hunted and fished upon 



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them. Among them'we 
hear such names"as Sam- 
powams, Scoqnams, Sec- 
atogue, Oquenock, 
Saghtekoos, Keemisco- 
mock, Weepoose, Mis- 
pat uck, Compowis, 
Manshtak, Wat- 
chogue, Penata- 
quit, Orawack, 
W i n g a 1 1- 
h a p p a g h , 
Kakaijongh 
and Awixa. 
Pretty villas 
and preten- 



tious summer homes dot the landscape, agreeably distant from 
each other, and many of them amid forest trees. There, also, wealth 
has been lavish in beautifying houses and lawns, so that even the 
villagers have built their stores with an eye to the aesthetic. There 
are three hotels at Bayshore, the largest being the Prospect 
House, located near the water, with cottages and a billiard hall.. 
The village is one of the most enterprising on the island, and with, 
the increase in population has come modern improvements, elec- 
tric lights and an excellent water supply system. The Olympic 
Club House, one of the finest establishments of the kind on the 
island, is located at Bayshore. At Islip the Pavilion and the 



Lake House are the principal hotels. The original patentee of 
Islip lands was William Nicoll, a son of Matthias Nicoll, who 
came to America with his uncle, Col. Richard Nicoll, when he 
drove Peter Stuyvesant from the rule of New Amsterdam and 
established the government of the Duke of York. Large tracts 
of land are still occupied by descendants of the original settler, 
and the name William Nicoll is now conspicuous among the 
honored names of the town. The South Side Sportsman's Club 
has commodious quarters and extensive preserves at Islip. Babylon, 
Bayshore and Islip are supplied with gas, electric lights, tele- 
phones and all the apjjliances of modern life. 

Oakdale, a charming woodland place, containing the palatial 
summer homes of W. K. Vanderbilt and other well-known New 
Yorkers, is just beyond Islip. Mr. Vanderbilt's "Idle Hour Stables" 
are said to be the finest private stables in this country. They cost 
$400,000. A tract of four hundred acres of land, the title of 
which is one of the oldest on Long Island, having come directly 
from the Indians, and confirmed by a patent from the Duke 
of York in 1683, has recently been transferred for the first time, 
and will be improved and beautified. Opposite this property is 
St. John's Church, which was built ten years before the Revolu- 
tionary War. 

Sayville, a thriving town next in order, emerges from the forest, 
and permits free sweep to the ocean breezes. It, too, contains 




many handsome homes, and several fine hotels and numerous 
boarding houses. Its growth within a few years has been unusually 
rapid. It rejoices in the possession of one of the finest school 
buildings in Suffolk County. The village is joined by Bayport, 
and then, after passing the modest village of Blue Point, which gives 
its name to the most popular and best known oyster in the market, we 
come to Patchogue, one ot the largest villages on Long Island. It is 
a wide-awake town, summer or winter. In the former season it 
swarms with young, rollicking and fun-making city folks. Patchogue 
is less expensive and more democratic than some of its neighbors, 
and for many years has been one of the most popular places on 
the coast. It has two beautiful lakes, one at each end of the village, 
and superb dock facilities at the bay. It is the chief harbor for 
the South Bay boats. There are several excellent hotels in the 
place and numerous boarding houses, and summer guests are 
always well provided for. Just beyond Patchogue is Bellport, 
another place that has been inviting attention in recent years. 
For beauty of situation and water facilities no town on the island 
can excel it. A portion of the village occupies a high bluff over- 
looking the bay, which at this point is three miles wide. The 
Bellport hotels and boarding houses have the reputation of taking 
excellent care of their visitors. Many costly mansions have been 
erected. A land company has purchased many thousand acres of 
the wild lands north of the village, and have laid it out in graded 
streets and avenues, some of them extending in a straight line 
for four or five miles, along which are thousands of build- 
ing lots. To the east of Bellport the shore stretches southward 
into a broad peninsula, the southwest extremity of which is called 
Smith's Point, which is one of the most interesting spots on the 
island. You can trace here the breastworks of Fort St. George, 
one of the strongholds of the British, which was captured by 
Colonel Tallmadge during the Revolutionary War. The land is 
part of a tract of some twenty thousand acres, extending back to the 
middle of the island, which was patented to Colonel William Smith 
October 9, 1693. The patent constituted the territory embraced 
in it as the Manor of St. George. Colonel Smith was Chief Justice 
of the province, one of the Governor's Council, and being Presi- 
dent of that body, in 1701, on the death of the Governor, he was 
by succession promoted to the temporary exercise of that office. 
Several thousand acres of the manor, including Smith's Point, still 
remain in possession of descendants of the patentee. In a cemetery 
near the old fort are buried many members of the Smith family, 
and near by is seen the house where William Floyd, one of the 



signers of the Declaration of Independence, lived. Brookhaven 
and Mastic are quiet places, with many comfortable farm houses, 
where summer visitors will find good homes. At the latter place 
is an Indian school, under patronage of the State. In the neigh- 
borhood are a number of families descended from the Poose- 
patuck Indians, a sub-tribe of the Patchogues. At South Haven 
is the trout preserve of the famous Suffolk Club. 








_ MORICHES TO SAG HARBOR. 

'j^j&^^f^^* \ A T Smith's Point a narrow channel divides the 
'33.v>y.'5j«aHH.. ' f] /~\ main-land from the Great South Beach and 

'■f^'p ' connects the Great South Bay with East Bay. 

feiiiitiP^ — ~^ Upon this latter body of water, close to the 

water's edge, numerous hotels and cottages are 
'.J^^-^ ^ superbly located. The bay is well sheltered, and 

boating is safe even for the ladies, while upon 
fi,^ (\ the banks of the many inlets which push 

\— 1\ their way into the shore children can play 

^T^""^ in perfect safety. These villages are almost 
' too far away for business men going to the 

city daily, but this disadvantage — if it be a 
disadvantage — is more than made up by the superior attractions 
offered at this end of the island. The roaring of the ocean waves 
can be heard, and a short ride in sail or row boat takes one to the 
ocean beach. The atmosphere is cool and bracing, and there 
are no marshes or lowlands to breed malaria, while from the 
pines come aromas laden with health-giving properties. Several 
eminent physicians have given this region the best possible recom- 
mendation by living there themselves. From the railroad little 
idea of the country is obtained. The depots are surrounded 
by dense woods, and the stranger is apt to step from the car 
with much hesitation, so uninviting is the wilderness about him. 
But his fears are soon dispelled when, after a short ride through 




HOTEL BROOKLVX. 

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i;ay view Hi.i- 



romantic woodland 
roads, he comes to the 
hotel or boarding house 
on the plateau over- 
looking the ocean and 
surrounded by rich 
fields and beautiful 
lawns. Here are the 
Moriches, places which 
l)ring pleasant memo- 
ries to thousands of 
Long Island tourists, 
with their large boarding houses and hotels. Among the latter might 
be mentioned the Bay View House, Tuthill Point House and River- 
side House ; also, Hotel Brooklyn, a modern, recently constructed 
hotel, excellently adapted to the comfort and convenience of guests. 
Here, also, is situated Eastport (where the Long Island Country 
Club is located), Speonk, and Westhampton, the first place east 
of Rockaway where one can drive to the ocean. Hundreds of 
handsome cottages are located there, many of them occupied by 
men of national repute. Cltrgymer, physicians, and scholars find 
congenial companionship here in the summer. Near the beach is 
the old Dix farm, owned and occupied for manv years by the late 
ex-Governor John A. Uix, and now the summer home of his son, 
the Rev. Morgan Dix, D.D. Not a few of the visitors come from 
New Jersey. Quogue, which joins Westhampton, not only has a 




PONQUOGL'E LIGHT. 
38 



quaint name, but is a quaint place, and is as popular to-day as it 
was in years gone by when UeWitt Clinton, Daniel Webster, and 
other distinguished statesmen were wont to visit it, fishing in the 
neighboring streams and bathing in its magnificent surf. 'I'he 




NEAR BAY HEAD. 



bathing facilities at Quogue are exceptionally fine. Temporary 
arbors are put up every year, under which one may recline by 
the hour, reading, sleeping, or watching the merry gambols of the 
children or the bathers. A bulletin board announces the temper- 
ature of the water, the condition of the tide, with a notice stating 
the safest place to bathe. There are nearly three hundred bath- 
houses on the beach. Quogue has several elegant private residences 
and numerous first-class hotels and boarding houses. 

Beyond Quogue is Bay Head, which has recently supplanled 
the Indian name of Good Ground, a charming place, where are 
to be found handsome residences, good boarding houses, excellent 
drives, and all the pleasures of fishing, sailing, and bathing. Many 
of the summer villas are located on the shores of Shinnecock Bay. 
At Ponquogue, near by, is the famous light-house of that name. 

Canoe Place is reached from the station at Bay Head and is 
about a mile distant. It is a narrow strip of land a quarter of a 
mile wide, separating Peconic and Shinnecock Bays, through which 
a canal has lieen dug by the State that the waters of the bays may 
mingle and thus improve the fishing ground and feed the clam beds. 
Near this point is Canoe Place Inn, a hospitable tavern, reminding 
one much of the cpiaint old English inns. It has been the stopping- 




place for sportsmen for over a hundred years, 
and its genial landlord insists that it is the 
oldest tavern in the State. In 1735 Jeremiah 
CAilver was granted a tract of land here on 
condition that he " forthwith set up a tavern 
and place of rest for travellers on ye King's 
highway." The tavern was set up and has been 
run ever since. It was a favorite stopping-place 
for the British officers during the Revolutionary 
War. In front of the hotel are two immense 
willow trees, which are said to have grown from sprouts brought 
from the island of St. Helena. A tall flag-pole stands by the road- 
side, and its base is a huge wooden figure-head of Hercules, taken 
from the United States war-ship Ohio. It weighs over a ton, and is 
an excellent specimen of that kind of work. On the road leading 
from the depot to the hotel, in a clump of trees near the wayside, is 
an old gravestone, erected early in the present century by the New 
York Missionary Society to the memory of the Rev. Paul Cuffee, the 




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last of the Indian preachers, and near by stands the little church 
where Cuffee used to preach. Just behind the inn, on the hill, are 
plainly to be seen the remains of an old fort, where three companies 
of British soldiers were stationed in 1776. 



Across the canal, at Canoe Place, is the region of the Shinnecock 
Hills, extending for a distance of four miles to Southampton village, 
and from the summit of which can be seen on one side the ocean and 
Shinnecock Bay, and on the other the beautiful Peconic Bay, and 
beyond, Long Island Sound. It is hardly possible to imagine a more 
desirable location for a summer residence. The land is high, and 
from this rounded plateau one looks down upon one of the finest 
marine views on the Atlantic coast. The ocean, flecked with sails, 
is before, while behind the winding waters of Peconic Bay, with the 
intermingling shores, give infinite variety of scene. Art has added to 
Nature's charms in the cottages that have been erected, representing 
the quaint English architecture of the period of Queen Anne. 
These " Hills " were purchased by the Long Island Improvement 
Company, and the finest portion has been transferred to the Shinne- 
cock Inn and Cottage Companv, representing prominent New York 
gentlemen, who have erected a hotel 
in exact reproduction of an old 
English inn, and they and 
other parties have built 
cottages and made green 
lawns and gardens where 
before were sand-heaps 
and low underbrush. The 
hill called "Sugar Loaf" 
is one hundred and forty 
feet hicrh, and is the 




iHlNNECUCK HILLS, 
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highest point of land on the south shore of the island. The depot 
of the Long Island Railroad is in keeping with the style of archi- 
tecture of the hotels and cottages. All this land was at one time 
owned by the Shinnecock Indians. The remnant of this once 
famous tribe live on a reservation on Shinnecock Neck, about two 
miles from Southampton village. Each Indian has a small wooden 
house, and with it an allotment of land which he tills. A few 
years ago thirteen of the best men were lost in the Circassian, 
a vessel that was wrecked off this coast. A melancholy interest 
attaches to this tribe, as it is the last remnant of the warlike tribes 
which once held undisputed sway over this region. Thev number 
about one hundred souls, are fairly intelligent and industrious, and 
are holding their own as regards numbers. Their government has 
some traces of the old tril)al regime, though the executive manage- 
ment is in the hands of trustees rather than chiefs. Their children 
are quick and intelligent, and their schools and churches are liberally 
patronized. The school is supported by the State as an Indian 
school. 

For anticpiities and aboriginal rehcs the east end of the island 
offers a rich field, especially in the region of the Hamj^tons. The 



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SOUTHAIMPTON. 



year 1640 is far back in our history, but in that year Southampton 
was setded, and to-day there are three or four houses in the village 
which date back to 1680. Sign-boards have recently been placed giv- 
ing the names of all the old streets and lanes, and on one we read 
that "Job's Lane was opened in 1663." In the old village cemeterv 



there is one stone, to the memory of the Rev. Joseph Taylor, erected 
in 1686. But it is the village of to-day with which we are particularly 
concerned. While other south side villages have residents from New 
York, Brooklyn, and cities about the metropolis, Southampton is 
composed almost exclusively of wealthy Gothamites. For the last 
fifteen years the place has been growing quietly, until now all the 
desirable land is occupied, and real estate, when sold, brings city 

prices. It is a fashionable and dis- 
tinguished community, satisfied in the 
knowledge that it possesses superior 
natui il attiactions and (me of the 
piettiest lakes and finest ocean beaches 
on the island The lake is over a 
mile long, and aiound it cluster 
most of the summer Mllas. The 



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lake extends to within a few rods of the ocean, where there is a 
hard beach and superb surf bathing. Architects have competed 
with one another in the building of these costly houses, and nowhere 
else is there so fine a grouping of handsome homes. In the 
vicinity of Southampton are the headquarters of the Hampton 
Club. Beyond the village to the east is Watermills, with several 
handsome residences, and Bridgehampton, a village with a con- 
siderable permanent population and a good hotel. The drives 
in the vicinity are picturesque. One leads to Georgica Park, 
a settlement on a high plateau, with Georgica Lake at the east 
and the ocean at the south. The location is magnificent. A dozen 
or more handsome cottages have been erected. Beyond Bridge- 
hampton the railroad swings away to the northeast, leaving the ocean 
shore, and after a run of four miles comes out upon the shore of 
Peconic Bay where is Sag Harbor, the terminus of the railroad. A 
curious old town it is. The inhabitants, until summer travel turned 
that way, said it was dead, and so it was, compared with its former 



glory, when seventy whaling vessels sailed from its docks. Those 
were stirring times, and not very long ago either. In 1790 Sag 
Harbor had more tons of square-rigged vessels engaged in foreign 
commerce than the port of New York. In 1847 ^he importation of 
whale oil and bone was valued at $996,500. The whaling trade soon 
after this began to diminish, and many of the Captains sailed for 
California during the gold excitement. The discovery of new methods 
of illumination and the destruction of the whale caused the decline in 
the business, and when the brig " Myra " was sold in 1862 the last of 
the famous industry was seen. A large watch-case factory and other 
industrial establishments, giving employment to hundreds of people, 
have been in oijeration for several years. Summer cottages have 
been built, tourist travel has turned in that direction, and the place 
has taken on a new activity. Julian Hawthorne, the novelist, spends 
his summers there. Near by are Noyac, once an Indian village and 
now a charming rural retreat, and the Oak Grove trout ponds, a 
famous resort for excursionists. 




EASTHAMPTON AND MONTAUK POINT. 

YING beyond the railroad, reached by stage from 
Bridgehampton six miles, or from Sag Harbor 
seven miles, is quaint old Easthampton. It 
was visited by the whites under Hudson 
eleven years before the arrival of the May- 
flov/er pilgrims at Plymouth. The lover of 
beauty rejoices in the isolation of the town, 
for it preserves yet the delicious loveliness 
of the old times,- and on Long Island at least it is peerless, 
while in the country, with few exceptions, it is unrivaled 
in its unique beauty. It is not exactly on the sea, though 
the ocean must have more than its wonted calmness when the boom- 
ing of the breakers is not heard in the quiet village. Less than two 
miles off are the great sand bluffs and the grandest beach between 
the Bay of Fundy and the Carolinas. The coast is wild and rugged, 
and the surf dashes upon it with appalling force. The main street of 





ELMS IN EASTHAMPTON. 



the village is eight rods in width, and for a good mile one can see 
to the upper end, where, at the branching of the roads, an old wind- 
mill stands. When the street was first laid out it was sixteen rods 
wide, and a burial ground eight rods wide was laid out in the 
middle of the highway, at each end of the village. This street, 
with its great overhanging elms, makes the glory of Easthampton. 



Along its sides live the villagers, some in houses of modern build 
and Queen Anne affectation, but most in the old homes of a 
century ago, with the quaint old gables and shingled roofs, in one 
of which John Howard Payne lived in boyhood, and in another 
Lyman Beecher resided while he was pastor of the old village church. 
The cemetery at the entrance of the village contains many inter- 
esting inscriptions and monuments of historic interest. Here is a 

pretentious and old world-like tomb, 

a canopy of granite, beneath which 

lies the life-sized figure 

* ,{ of a recumbent knight 

ji^'A, in full armor: it is the 

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[i^ Gardiner. A 

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of granite 

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rates John 

A lexander, 

the son of 




E.XTERKIR AND INTERIOR OF HOME OF 
JOHN HOWAkD PAYNE. 



John Tyler, President 
of the United States. 
On the roadway mid- 
way between the Pres- 
byterian Church and 
the cemetery stands 
Clinton Academy, a 
quaint structure of 
many gables, with a cupola that looks as if it was made for a 
toy-house and a bell that has swung beneath it for nearly a 
century. It was founded in 1784 by Rev. Dr. Buell and William 
Payne, father of John Howard Payne. There are three genuine 
Holland wind-mills in the town, and because of these and the 
beautiful scenery, Easthampton has long been the Mecca of artists. 
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage has his summer home here. Just out of 
the village is a famous old toll-gate, with the house still standing, 

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a most interesting 
feature of the old town. 
Two miles to the east 
is Amagansett, and be- 
yond is Montauk Point, 
the extreme end of the 
coast. It is a hilly 
peninsula, containing 
about nine thousand 
acres of land. It was 
originally owned by a 
company, the heirs and 
assigns of which, some 
two hundred years ago, 
bought it of the In- 
dians. It was always 
used as a common past- 
ure field, until 1879, 
when as a result of a 
partition suit it was 
sold at auction to the 
late Mr. Arthur Benson 
of Brooklyn for $151,- 
000. The usual way 
of reaching Montauk Point is by carriage from Easthampton, though 
not a few prefer to go by boat from Sag Harbor. In 1881 the 
Montauk Association was formed, and eighty acres within three 
miles of the Point were purchased. A summer colony has been 
started and nine houses erected, and they are all comfortable build- 
ings, and most of them expensively furnished. There is a club 
house where the families congregate for meals and social enjoyment. 
For rugged scenery there is nothing to equal Montauk. The bluffs 
range from fiftv to one hundred feet in height, and are bold and 
picturesque. In some places they present a front of stratified clay, 
at others they appear as masses of boulders and of wave-worn and 
ice-worn pebbles. As we near the Point the hills become bare of 
foliage, though covered with grass, forming a wild, open moorland, 
with something of that space and freedom that one sees in the 
English downs and western plains. From the bluffs the exjmnse of 
sea is grand and inspiring. At Fort Pond Bay is a magnificent 
harbor, which is to be the terminus of the projected swift line of 
steamships to Milford Haven. At the extreme point is the white 
tower of the Montauk light, marking the end of Long Island, and 



EASTHAMPTON. 




TOLL GATE. 



throwing the flash of its Fresnel light for twenty miles over the dark 
waters. The Sachem Wyandanck, chief of the thirteen tribes of 
Indians which formerly occupied the land, resided on the promontory 
of Montauk, named after him, and there are to be seen to-day the 
remains of his citadel, " Kongkonganock." The whole Atlantic 
coast offers no spot richer in historic and romantic interest than this 










NEAK SAG HARBOR. 



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famous point. It is weird in its solitary isolation, scarred with 
winds and waves, having grandeur of outline, and yet its summit 
is softened with greenest grass, and all the tender grace that Nature 
gives. It is a place of dreams, separated from the world's great life, 
with naught around it but the silent reaches of untenanted land and 
the great mvstery of the illimitable sea. Not long will it preserve 
its unique and charming isolation. Enterprise will make its high- 
ways there, and the iron horse will ere long bring the pleasure-seekers 
to its solitudes. But, however populous may become this unrivaled 
cliff, nothing can destroy the splendor of its outlook or dim the glory 
of its azure sky, or the expanse of the great waste of waves that 
stretches beneath it. There are three life-saving stations on Montauk. 




l\(ONTAUK POINT. 




SUBURBAN TOWNS. 

•elopment of towns and the creation of 
\e western part of Long Island results 
from the recognition of its advantages as a place 
of residence. Improvements in rapid transit, sanitary 
measures, restrictions against nuisances, and the erection 
of pleasant and tastefully designed houses and cottages 
only were needed to lure the people of moderate means 
' - and quiet tastes into this healthful region. It is now 

possible to do business in New York or Brooklyn through the day, 
and in an hour or less from the time of leaving the shop or office 
to be swinging in the hammock under one's own elms or maples, 
inhaling a strong sea air, sweetened in its passage across miles of 
fields and woods, and enjoying the peaceful pleasures of rustic life. 
The towns near Brooklyn are not only agreeable and healthy, but 
they have stores, schools and churches, and are in almost every 
way better places for a family than the noisy, bustling and immoral 
city. Land and houses can be bought at moderate prices and on- 
easy terms, and generous commutation is offered by the railroad. 
Richmond Hill, eight miles from Brooklyn, will recall to those 
who have made a transatlantic tour the delightful Richmond suburb 
of London, from whose famous Star and Garter Inn is revealed 
a lovelv view of English meadows and groves, with the silvery 
Thames winding through them. From the gentle elevations of 
this Long Island Richmond one looks across miles of l)road and 
fertile fields, studded with comfortable farm houses and bits of 
forest, to the sea that lies sparkling in the south and that freshens 
every breeze with ozone. From the higher points the Sound is also 
visible on the north, and there is no end of delightful walks and 
rides in the neighborhood. The settlement here is new and archi- 
tecturally attractive. Fruit trees and gardens flourish ; every house 
has a strip of lawn ; the roads are shaded, and a good system of 
drainage and water works is in operation. Another suburban town of 
merit is Woodhaven, distant but a few minutes' ride from Brooklyn. 
It is a place of growing consequence, where land may be had on 
reasonable terms, and it offers many inducements to the middle 
class. One or two large factories are the industrial centres of 
Woodhaven, and every passenger over this road will have admired 
the residence of Mr. Grosjean, one of the factory owners : a house 
set in a spacious park, with flower beds, ponds, bridges, statuary, 
and ornamental shrubbery — one of the most ambitious specimens 
of gardening on Long Island. 

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South of Richmond Hill, at the point where the divisions of 
the railroad from Long Island City and Atlantic Avenue come 
together, is the new suburb of Morris Park, connected with Brooklyn 
by forty trains a day. This village is charmingly designed, with 
broad, shaded avenues that run toward the cardinal points of the 
compass. Every house is neat and picturesque, the Queen Anne 
style being in present favor, and, as the lots are spacious, every 
dwelling stands back from the road in the retirement of its own 
lawn and garden. A straight boulevard runs to Jamaica Bay on 
the south, and there are hills close to the northward view. Morris 
Park is legally protected against nuisances of all kinds, and improve- 
ments are rapidly effected. Dunton, near by, a new applicant for 
public favor, has met with large success in its real estate transactions. 

Jamaica is a conservative and orderly old town, with all the 
appurtenances of a city in its shops, schools, churches, lighting, water, 
drainage, and transportation systems, and is the capital and ship- 
ping point for a large and rich farming region that spreads over the 
hills and plains for miles on every side. The main street is wide, 
well shaded, and partly lined with houses that date back to the 
colonial era — houses with timber in their walls that will hold 
together for another century, and that are overhung by venerable 
elms, under whose branches, as children, sported the great-grand- 
fathers of the present generation. Pleasantly and healthfully sur- 
rounded, diversified in surface, readily accessible to the great cities, 
and offering land and homes for sale or to rent at prices alluring to 
the city man who despairs of owning a house in town, Jamaica is 
certain of a sure increase in population and popularity in the near 
future. It has three newspapers, and has grown to be of conse- 
quence as an educational centre, its five public schools being sup- 
plemented by Maple Hall Institute, Union Hall Seminary, and the 
Catholic School of St. Monica. Jamaica boasts — or has v.athout 
boasting — a society of more than local distinction for wealth and 
cultivation, and its influence is felt for good on the community. 
On the outskirts of the village is WoodhuU Park, an attractive loca- 
tion for suburban residences. 

Hollis is one of the places of the future, if present indications 
are not delusive. It has now the aspect of a spacious park, set 
with five hundred Norway maples, containing three miles of drives, 
furnished with a good water system, and communication with the 
cities by means of twenty-four daily trains. Already many very 
handsome residences have been erected, and the increase in houses 
is large each vear. The ground here is slightly rolling, with a fall 
toward the south, and this, together with a sandy sub-soil that 



underlies the surface loam, secures good drainage and security 
against malarial influences. The landscape as seen from an eleva- 
tion is delightful: the hill range, known as the "back-bone of Long 
Island," unfolding along the north, while the green plains, the 
marshy islands, the populous keys of Rockaway and Long Beach, 
and the distant Atlantic are in view at the south, and on clear days 
the crests of the Hudson palisades and Westchester hills are in 
sight. History also lends interest to this region, for troops have 
camped and battled hereabout, and it was here that Gen. Nathaniel 
WoodhuU was taken prisoner while scouting, after the disastrous 
battle of Long Island. 

Queens is a pretty spot on the verge of the great Hempstead 
Plain, and near to many interesting points. It is occupied by 
a steady-going population of farmers and gardeners, some of 
whom are employed in the superb nurseries of the neighborhood, 
where, during the warm weather, acres of ground are covered 
with flowers that delight by their sweet odors and lively colors. 
North of Queens, though reached more readily from Floral Park 
by branch railroad, is Creedmoor, a pleasant hamlet, near which is 
the most celebrated of American rifle ranges, where the National 
Guard is frequently to be seen and heard at practice, and where the 
international matches took place some years ago. Creedmoor is 
an open and healthful countr}-, with serene old farm houses near it 
that attract the summer boarder, and Little Neck Bay within walk- 
ing distance on the north. 

Floral Park and East Hinsdale, sixteen miles from Brooklyn, 
form an enterprising community that has not yet been struck by a 
"boom," but some people will like it the better for that, as it assures 
low prices and quiet living. Some of the most extensive seed and 
flower nurseries in the State are carried on here, and anyone 
interested in horticulture will be well repaid by a visit to these 
gardens. The populace is composed of farmers, though peojjle 
from the cities are beginning to build here. At Hyde Park we 
find a hotel and many pleasant dwellings. 

Garden City is well named, for it is an 2(rbs in riin\ with all the 
charm of rural belongings pervading its streets — a place of green 
shades and sweet odors, of tinkling fountains and Inilmy fields. It 
was laid out on a scale of generous proportions by the late A. T. 
Stewart, who bought for the purpose an immense reach of over 
seven thousand acres, then called the Hempstead Barrens, and 
thought l)y farmers to be worth nothing except as pasture land. 
The jnirchase was made in 1869, the town of Hempstead receiving 
$394,350 for the land. On this i)lain one of the most exquisite 







little towns in the country has developed, charming in appearance, 
with unusual advantages, and inhabited by people of refinement. 
Its thirty miles of streets and roads offer a delightful series of 
walks and drives, and in the surrounding "barrens," which are 
vocal through the summer with birds' songs, and which are freely 
swept by refreshing breezes, are wide and satisfying views of ; 
field, wood, and distant village. There is here a large and 
well-directed school, a casino, a park and a cathedral ; for 
Garden City is the ecclesiastical centre of the Long Island 
diocese, and the bishop lives here in a 
house that is furnished v/ith every luxury 
that taste and riches can suggest. The 
cathedral is a landmark that is visible 
for miles, and is a beautiful specimen 
of the Gothic, designed 
primarily as a mausoleum 
for the Stewart family. It 
.is richly decorated within 
and without, contains fine 
organs, and its musical ser- 
vices draw visitors by the 
score from other places on 

every Sunday. From Garden City a branch road is being con- 
structed to Valley Stream, and when completed will make direct 
communication between the north and south shores of the island. 
Hempstead, reached by a branch railroad from Garden City, 
one mile distant, is a good old town, not unlike a New England 
village, with its shaded trees, its big white houses and green blinds, 
its old churches, and its fat farms on the outlying plains. The 
people are well to do, and are noted for kindliness and sense. Gas 
has been brought into the houses, a fire department has been organ- 
ized, there are large halls for meetings, fairs, and entertainments, 
good schools, fine churches, and three hotels, one of which sheltered 
Washington. The Episcopal Church owns a communion service 
presented in 1776 by Queen Anne. Near Hempstead are fresh 
water rowing, fishing and shooting, while the "barrens" are full 
of deliajhtful walks and drives. 




CATHEDRAL AT GARDEN CITY. 








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THE CENTRAL SECTION. 

ROM Garden City the main line of the railroad continues 
through the central i)ortion of Long Island, and then 
along the northern branch of the east end to Greenport. 
This region has not until recent years received that atten- 
tion which it deserved, so little has it been known to 
r^' Long Island tourists. From the car windows only a very 

-y poor idea of the country can be obtained, and even residents 
on the island have been accustomed to depreciate the value 
of the land. It has already been demonstrated by practical 
experiment, as in the case of Garden City, Central Islip, and 
other points, that the land is extremely fertile, and can with small 
labor be brought to the highest state of productiveness. The section 
throughout is rich in natural scenery, and because of its peculiar 
situation, with the soil perfect for drainage, the hills to the north 
offering shelter from harsh winds, and the pine trees giving forth 
health, it is a region unsurpassed for salubrity. To thoroughly appre- 
ciate this section one must visit the towns, scramble over the hills 
and green fields and through the forest groves, and mingle with the 
unostentatious and hospitable inhabitants. Nearest to Garden City 
is Mineola, where the Queens County Fair Grounds are located. It is 
the centre of a good farming country, and is a growing place. East 
Williston, Jericho, Westbury, Hicksville, are included in this section. 
At a short distance from Westbury is located the famous Meadow 
Brook Club, an organization of well known New York gentlemen. 
Central Park and Farmingdale are thriving villages, where much 
of the produce is raised that finds its way to the city markets. A 
large portion of the farm j)roducts that are supplied to Brooklyn 
come from Long Island, and a still larger quantity finds its way 
to New York. These villages all offer quiet retreats for the sum- 
mer vacationist. Passing through West Deer Park, Deer Park, and 



Edgewood, Brentwood is reached, where a new phase of Long Island 
is presented. During the past few years the attention of the public 
has been directed to a complete health resort on Long Island, dis- 
tant only forty-one miles from New York. Brentwood has that 
health resort, and is destined to become as popular as Lakewood, 
New Jersey. It has long been known that the atmosphere of pine 
forests is most favorable to invalids suffering from pulmonary affec- 
tions, and physicians, in recent years, have been sending patients to 
the pine groves with satisfactory results. At Brentwood there is 
such a forest, in the midst of which are excellent hotels that meet 
all requirements, keeping open summer and winter. The property 
was originally owned by a wealthy gentleman, Mr. R. W. Pearsall, 
who had twelve acres of the land made into a park, planting over 
twelve varieties of trees, the pines predominating, and the natural 
growth surrounding it being entirely of pines. Some of these trees 
are nearly fifty feet in height, which speaks well for the fertility of 
the soil. The designer of Central Park, New York, and Prospect 
Park, Brooklyn, laid out the grounds. Mr. Pearsall erected a hand- 
some house, modeled after a chateau in France, and richly furnished 
it throughout, the floors being inlaid with hardwood panels, and the 
decorations being artistic and costly. This house, now called 
"The Brentwood," was purchased by some wealthy New York 
gentlemen, who had experienced beneficial results from the New 
Jersey pine groves. These parties opened it to the public, and 
their venture met with such a large degree of success that they 
erected an elegant hotel known as " The Austral," which accom- 
modates about two hundred guests. It is supplied with steam 
heat, open fires, gas, elevators, and every convenience of a city 
hotel. There are pine trees on all sides, extending for twelve miles 
to the west, and on the east to Peconic Bay. The winds from 
the north are broken by the ridge of hills along the central part 
of the island, and from the east are wafted over sixty miles of 
pine forests, while from the south they come in the summer, bring- 
ing cooling breezes from the ocean. 

An observing physician of national repute once remarked that 
the two counties of the United States most remarkable for health 
were Suffolk, Long Island, and Berkshire, Mass. As to Suffolk 
County, no one who has lived there will doubt the truth of this 
statement. The temperature of this portion of the island is several 
degrees warmer in winter and cooler in summer than that of the 
main-land. The reason for this is that the prevailing winds are from 
the south and southwest, blowing directly over the waters from the 
Gulf Stream, which is only ninety miles distant. Several very 











Uli.XKONKU.MA. 



handsome houses have been built in Brentwood, and are occupied 
by gentlemen of wealth and culture, and during the past year many 
eligible building sites have been sold. There is an Episcopal Church 
in the village, and near the depot is a large nursery. Three miles 
to the east is Central Islip, a cheerful village with pleasant surround- 
ings. New York City, in 1884, through its Commissioners of 
Charities and Corrections, purchased one thousand acres on the line 
of the railroad at Central Islip station, and extending for two miles 
and a half to Islip proper. The land cost $25,000, and at the present 
time nearly $300,000 have been expended on buildings, water supply, 
etc. The farm is meant to accommodate quiet chronic male patients, 
and especially those who are able to perform outdoor work. There 
are alreadv three hundred patients on the premises. 

A few miles to the south is a large tract of land called Bohemia, 
which has for fifty years been owned and farmed by genuine Bohe- 
mians. It is a unique settlement. The men work in factories in the 
cities and villages and the women carry on the farming. 

Midway in the island, Ronkonkoma, the most charming of lakes, 
is set. The station nearest it bears the same name, and is less than 
a mile away. The road leading to this peerless lake approaches by 
gentle descent, with trees on either side, many of them of great size. 
The lake is about three miles in circumference, and in one jDlace 
has a depth of sixty-five feet. It is fed by springs, and is of 
remarkable clearness and purity. A white-sand beach borders it, 
and its shores are delightful in their varied contour. The banks 
rise in pleasant ascent, and are bordered with every variety of vege- 
tation. Large trees hang their graceful branches downward, while 
vines and shrubbery grow with rich luxuriance. The road follows 
the shore, and winds in and out, following every indentation, while 
beside it is the little footpath in which lovers can walk and tell the 
pleasant tales that lovers have ever whispered. From whatever 
point one looks at this incomparable lake it is a thing of beauty, for 
its waters are of brightest color, easily susceptible to every breeze, 
while the shores are picturesque in their happy mingling of forest, 
farm, and homestead. There are many attractive houses about the 
lake, where summer boarders are accommodated. The drives in the 
vicinity are interesting, the walks are inviting, the air is tempered by 
the breezes off the lake; and nowhere on the island is there a more 
attractive spot than this lake, with its pleasant name and its old 
traditions of Indian days. 

Beyond Ronkonkoma are Waverly, Medford, Yaphank, Manor, 
and Baiting Hollow, all healthy places, surrounded by a good 
farming section, with fish and game in abundance. West of Manor 

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is Panamoko Park, a tract of two thousand acres of woodlands 
which is to be converted into a winter and summer health retreat. 
At Yaphank is a model farm connected with the county almshouse. 
The shire town of Suffolk County is Riverhead. It is centrallv 
located, and an active village of two thousand inhabitants. It takes 
its name from the Peconic River, which empties into a bay of that 
name a short distance away. Riverhead has many advantages as a 
summer resort. A half-hour's drive will take one to Peconic Bav, 
and a ride of eight miles to the ocean, and it is less than that 
distance to the Sound. The village is handsomely laid out and has 
many fine residences. It is a bustling town, and during Fair week 
and Court time is crowded with strangers. It has one newspaper, a 
savings bank, one of the best in the State, a national bank, six 
churches, and numerous local institutions. The court house, jail, 
and county clerk's office are substantial buildings, with well-kept 
lawns in front. The county fair grounds cover twenty acres of land 
upon which are well-appointed buildings. A mile from the village 
is a beautiful body of water called Great Pond. The water is as 
clear as crystal, with a fine sand bottom, and on the south are high 
bluffs from which can be seen the ocean. Cauliflower and potatoes 
are raised in large quantities, and in the spring carloads of straw- 
berries are sent to the market daily. Several cranberry bogs are 
profitably cultivated. Two miles from Riverhead is Flanders, beau- 
tifully situated on the south shore of Peconic Bay, a modest resort, 
where sailing, fishing, and bathing are among the many attractions. 




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PECONIC B/\Y RESORIS 




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At Jamesport is a 
resort which has been 
so popular in recent 
years that the hotels 
and boarding houses 
have been unable to 
accommodate the rush 
of summer guests. The 
popularity of the place 
is easily understood. It 
stands at the head of 
Peconic Bay, the 
yachtsman's favorite 
domain and the tour- 
ist's delight, while 
pleasant roads offer de- 
lightful drives through 
a charming rural 
region. The boating in 
Peconic Bay is regard- 
ed by some as even 
superior to that in the 
Great South Bay. The 
fishing is excellent. 
The slope from the 





shores is so gradual that children can go in bathing and paddle 
about in boats with comparati\e safety. There is much life and 
gaiety at Janiesport, and those who go there once are apt to become 
permanent visitors. Mattituck is a busy country village, and never 
wants for lioarders. The 
people are active, progressive F 
farmers, being largely en- | 
gaged in vegetable growing 
and seed raising. This local- 
ity has a national reputation 
for cabbage seed, which is 
grown here by the ton. Other 
garden seeds are cultivated 
in large quantities. The epi- 
cure can be especially favored 
by the number and qualitv 
of crabs that are caught in 
the lake-like inlet or creek 
which forms so pleasant a 
feature of the view to the 
north of the village. The 
inhabitants are a thriftv class 
of people, judging by the 
commodious and well-kept 
houses, and by the harvests which the land annually gives forth. 
For those who are seeking rural homes near New York no more 
desirable locations can possibly be found than in this section of 
Long Island. Not only is the land excellent, but the scenery and 
climate are not surpassed in the State. Cutchogue, another of 
these north side villages, is famous for its fine horses as well as its 
attractive homes. It is a place frequented by artists in the sum- 
mer. A mile and a half southward and directly upon the bay is 
New Suffolk, which has been a popular resort for forty years or 
more. Opposite this point, and distant a few minutes' sail, is 
Robins Island, a famous hunting preserve, owned by the Robins 
Island Gun Club, an organization composed of prominent Brooklyn 
gentlemen. The island contains four hundred and sixty-nine acres 
of land. It is diversified with hills, cliffs, forests, fertile fields, 
and sand beaches. Adjacent to Cutchogue on the east is Peconic, 
a rich and beautiful section of productive farms and rural homes. 
The first resident of this place was a solitary man, in whose honor 
it was named Hermitage, which name has in recent years given way 
to the present one. 

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OLD MILL NEAR MATTITIXK. 



Continuing eastward by the railroad is Soutliold, a place which 
disputes the claim with Southampton as being the oldest English 
settled town in New York State. The purchase of Southold was 
made of the Indians as early as August, 1640, by the colony of New 
Haven. Rev. John Youngs, in October of that year, organized a 
church, which is still alive and prosperous. In a short time the settle- 
ment was well established. The Southold of to-day is an attractive 
village with clean streets, houses newly painted, and lawns well kept. 
A home-like atmosphere pervades the place. It is but a short walk 
to Peconic Bay and only a mile distant to the Sound. There are 
five churches, a newspaper, a hotel, and numerous boarding houses. 
There are several handsome residences in the place. On Morton's 
Point, north of the village, is an important light-house. The next 
station beyond is Greenport, the terminus of the railroad. It was 
formerly a famous port for whaling vessels, but now the inhabitants 
devote themselves principally to ship-building, railroading, menhaden 
fishing, and caring for the wants of summer visitors. It has an excel- 
lent harbor, one of the finest on the Atlantic coast, which has recently 
been much improved by the building of a breakwater. It has nearly 
three thousand inhabitants, with a bank, fire department, two news- 
papers, and seven churches. There is a steamboat running between 
Greenport and New London, and hourly communication with 
Shelter Island by a ferry. It has been a popular summer resort for 
many years. It is a historic place — the house now standing where 
Washington put up for a night in 1757 ; another where Whitefield 
stopped and wrote with a diamond on a pane of glass " One thing is 
needful." 

The easternmost point of the northern arm of the island is 
Orient, an interesting place, where many wealthy gentlemen have 
built homes for themselves. The temperance sentiment of the 
village is very strong, and no liquor saloons are allowed. There is a 
hotel and a few boarding houses. The town is rich in attractions of 
land and water. Only a mile east of Orient Point is Pium Island, 
the paradise of sportsmen. 










ORIENT POINT. 
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SHELTER ISLAND. 

N old writer once said that God might have made a 
''^;\; better berry than a strawberry, but he doubted if He 
Oc'l. ever did. So a finer island than Shelter Island might 
have been dropped into the waters, but where 
it can be found, what traveler can tell ? The 
branching arms of Long Island hold it lov- 
ingly as a rare jewel, clasped by its golden 
setting, and no element of beauty seems lack- 
ing to make it incomparable among islands. It is irregular in 
outline, with cliffs and promontories dropping into tiny coves and 
bays, with little beaches and shores rich with all the sweet delicious- 
ness that shells and moss can give, while before it and around it are 
the blue waters of Peconic and Gardiner's Bays and the distant 
Atlantic. Backward from the shore there are delightful pastoral 
scenes — hills and dales, dense woods, sunny fields with opening 
vistas of the encircling seas, while from its many summits, anchored 
not far away, may be seen a vision 

" Of islands that together lie 

As quietly as spots of skj- 
Amongst the evening clouds." 

This island, with its well-sheltered harbor, has borne a prominent 
part in the annals of our country. When the Puritans of New 
England, who fled from persecution, became themselves the per- 
secutors of the Quakers, this island of Manhassett became a shelter 
for George Fox and his followers. Nathaniel Sylvester, lord of the 
manor, though not a Quaker himself, greatly sympathized with the 
persecuted people, and furnished them with a harbor of refuge, and 
the welcome thus accorded has been immortalized by the Quaker 
poet Whittier in the verses : 

* * * * 

So from his last home to the darkening main, 
Bodeful of storm, strong Macy hied his way ; 
And when the green shore blended with the gray, 

His poor wife moaned : " Let us turn back again." 
" Nay, woman weak of faith, kneel down," said he, 
" And say thy prayers ; the Lord himself will steer, 
And led by Him nor man nor devils fear." 

So the gray Southwicks, from the rainy sea 

Saw, far and faint, the loom of land, and gave. 
With feeble voices, thanks for friendly ground 
Whereon to rest their weary feet, and found 

A peaceful death-bed and a quiet grave. 

Where, ocean walled, and wiser than his age. 

The Lord of Shelter scorned the bigot's rage. 

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MANHANSET HOUSE. 



A handsome monument bearing inscriptions commemorating 
these early events was unveiled amid appropriate ceremonies July 17, 
1884. Professor Horsford, of Cambridge, occupies in the summer 
the Shelter Island Manor House, over one hundred years old. It 
is near the site of the original Sylvester Manor. 

The growth of Shelter Island as a place of resort has been quite 
remarkable. It contains every variety of natural scenery and the 
best of boating facilities. It came into public notice in 1872, when 
by an act of the Legislature "The Shelter Island Grove and Camp- 
Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church" was incor- 
porated. About three hundred acres of land on the north side 
of the island were purchased. It is now known as Shelter Island 
Heights, and has its own jjost-office. The camp-meeting feature of 
the place did not last long, and some eight years ago the property 
came into the control of several prominent and highb, respectable 
gentlemen, who have since managed the affairs of the Association in 
a satisfactory manner. Sanitary arrangements are perfect, a large 
reservoir supplies all the houses with pure spring water, and the 
restrictions imposed are such as keep out all nuisances. The Asso- 
ciation runs a large hotel, the Prospect House. There are over one 
hundred and fifty cottages in the Association, ranging in value from 
$3000 upwards, and not a few of them occupied by gentlemen of 
national reputations. About two miles eastward from the heights is 
the territory of the Manhanset Association, ujion which has been 
erected a large hotel, the Manhanset House; it is elegantly located, with 
a fine view of the harbor, and supplied with every convenience of a 
thoroughly equipped hotel. This Association has, also, several hand- 
some cottages, all of which are located in an attractive part of the 
island overlooking the water. There are twenty miles of e.xcellent 
roads, and the driving and horseback riding can hardly be improved. 

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There is no surf bathing, but good and safe still water bathing. 
Athletic grounds have been laid out, and tennis courts, and there is 
a Shelter Island Yacht Club v/ith large membership. 

Seaward from Shelter Island is Gardiner's Island, seven miles 
long and varying in width from three miles down to a few rods, 
owned by the Gardiners for two hundred and fifty years. It was 
purchased from the Indians, and occupied in 1639 by Lion Gardiner, 
the first Englishman who settled within the present bounds of this 
State. It is a long, sun-lit island, and is abundantly supplied with 
game, fruits, and flowers, with excellent soil for cultivation. Leg- 
end has it that Captain Kidd buried some of his treasures on this 
island a year or two before his execution. A commission was sent 
out and dug up a chest containing seven hundred and eighty-three 
ounces of gold, eight hundred and fifty ounces of silver, and a 
quantity of diamonds, rubies, pearls, silk and satin cloths. The 
Squire's Hall contains souvenirs of Captain Kidd, among other 
things a valuable silk shawl, which the pirate gave Mrs. Gardiner. 
The present colony on the island consists of less than one hundred 
men, women, and children, who are employed at farming, garden- 
ing, and stock-raising. 





^ THE NOPvTK SHORE. 

ONG ISLAND on its north shore is entirel} different 
in physical aspect from the south side. The latter 
has plains and beaches, besides its remarkable 
outlying sand-pits, while the former is high ground, 
a pile of glacial drift, corrugated by hillocks and 
valleys, and cut into by a series of a dozen har- 
bors, narrow, somewhat too shallow for vessels of 
deep draught, but safe anchorage for yachts, of which a fleet 
■■''^^' will generally be found off Flushing, Great Neck, Roslyn, 
Glen Cove, Oyster Bay, Huntington, Northport, and Port Jeffer- 
sOxT. The southern face of the hills is a gradual slope, advan- 
[M% f3^g<^ous for crops requiring cpiick drainage and sunny exposure, 
while the northern face has lieen eroded by the waves of the 
Sound until it falls away in steep and often precipitous bluffs 
i; 1 of gravel that occasionally rise one hundred feet al)ove the 
water. At the foot of these bluffs are beaches, dissimilar 
to the broad, hard sands of Fire Island and Rockaway, for they 
are narrow and strewn with boulders, though bathing is alwavs 
feasible from them, and one may more readily wade into deeper 
water. There is but little surf, as breakers gain small sea-room 
in the Sound. The hills are picturescpie, much of their surface 
being clothed with forest and dotted with new and substantial 
villas and summer homes. The highest jHnnt is Harbor Hill, near 
Roslyn, about three hundred and fiftv feet in altitude. Like all 
the heights in this range, it commands a splendid \iew of the 
green fields and forests to the east and south, the shining Sound 
below, and the cultivated shores of Westchester and Connecticut 
to the northwest and north. The hills known as " the back-bone 
of the island " run along from three to seven miles inland and 
are distinct ridges. The air is pure, the drainage is facilitated by 
light soil and by valleys with a seaward trend ; wild flowers and 
fruits flourish, vegetation is rich and beautiful, little brooks babble 
through the forest dells, and the forest aisles resound with songs 
of birds. In the pine and oak regions the hunter or the traveler 
might easily imagine himself in the fastnesses of an Adirondack 
wilderness, were it not for the lack of peaks in the held of vision. 
These hills will undoubtedly be taken up in time as homesteads by 
people of taste and means, since the attractions, both of the 
country and seaside, are accessible from the cities, and are "handv" 
to safe harbors. The little towns that nestle between the headlands 

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have obvious comfort, and may be resorted to for their shops, 
factories, schools, and churches, while summer board is to be secured 
in all of them. 

A little ch.^an of towns, extending from Brooklvn to Great Neck, 
is served by branches of the Long Island Railroad, over which forty 
to fifty trams a day are dispatched. These towns may be regarded 
as centring about Flushing, and are cozy places well furnished 
with numerous modern conveniences. Woodside and Winfield, 
respectively three and four miles from Long Island City, occupy 
rising ground, and many pretty villas stand there. In Newtown 
there are not a few fine old places, though the township is occupied 
mainly by market gardens, from which New York and Brooklyn are 
supplied with tons of vegetables during the season. Corona is a 
hopeful little suburb that is built on a good plan, and a couple of 
miles beyond it the passenger may alight at either of the two stations 
in Flushing. It would be difficult to say which town on Long Island 
is the most attractive, but if the decision of the public were taken 
on this subject it is certain that Flushing would not fare ill in a 
general verdict, for it is a charming town, with an individuality of 
its own. Its long business street has the look of a city thoroughfare 
in spite of the trees that almost arch it, for there are stores, banks, 
hotels, restaurants, agencies, and newspaper offices, and on the 
clean and shaded side streets and avenues are churches and schools, 
and many homes that bespeak the possession of comfortable bank 
accounts, as well as of taste and moderate leisure. Some of the 
houses are sufficiently quaint and ancient to take on an old world 
aspect. There is a park in the business centre, and famous nurs- 
eries on the skirts of the town. Flushing has a gas, water and 
electric light service, and is protected by firemen and police. Its 
schools, among them St. Joseph's Academy, Fairchild's Institute, 
St. Michael's, the Young Ladies' Seminary, and the High School, 
are attended by many pupils from other places, and are noted 
for efficiency. 

College Point occupies the stubby cape between Flushing Bay 
and the Sound, and is devoted largely to manufactures. Its streets 
are well paved ; it has gas, v/ater, sewerage, and fire engines, and it is 
better cared for than most factory settlements, for it has a free 
technological institute, library, kindergarten, reading room, several 
good schools, a bank, a newspaper, shops, and churches. White- 
stone, on a well-drained slope where the East River debouches 
into the Sound, is gathering a considerable population of city workers, 
and stands near the fort and Government reservation at Willett's 
Point, to which visitors are often attracted by engineer practice, 



drill, gunnery experiments, and bund concerts. The place is noted 
as being one of the first in the country to manufacture pottery. 

Kayside, Douglaston, and Little Neck are small and quiet places 
on Little Neck Bay, where the famous Little Neck clam is found on 
its "native heath." These are places of savory suggestion to many 
a New Yorker, and the seat of many fine residences and substantial 
farm houses. The roads, hedged by noble old trees, wind along 
close to the bluff, disclosing rare views of land and water. Great 
Neck, fourteen miles from the western terminus of the road, is of 
limited importance as a village, but is the summer seat of many rich 
New Yorkers, and contains many elegant mansions and rich estates. 
This promontory, or great neck of land, juts out into the Sound 
for a distance of about two miles, and has a fine water front on 
two sides. The ground is high, the roads are sheltered by trees 
and edged with wild flowers and berry bushes, and the salt breezes 
sweeping in from the Sound keep the thermometer several degrees 
lower than it is in New York during the August heats. The drives 
are enjoyable, the views superb, and the tables of the community 
are furnished from scores of well-managed gardens, farms and 
dairies. Bathing and boating are common enjoyments through the 
summer. A little beyond Great Neck is the secluded village of 
Manhassett, in a valley between the hills, the shores of which 
form Manhassett Bay. On the east side is Port Washington, as 
quaint a retreat for fishermen and oystermen as may be found 
the whole length of the island. 

Another promontory bearing the ancient name of Cow's Neck, 
to the east of Great Neck, juts out into the Sound a still greater 
distance, and has every vantage point that heart could desire. Here, 
too, have been erected costly residences, surrounded by foliage and 
evergreen hedges. Sands Point, the extreme point of this neck, is 
where the steamers stop, and where the fleet of pleasure boats are 
anchored. 




NEAR SEA CLIFF. 



ROSLYN TO OYSTER BAY. 

The Glen Cove branch of the railroad diverges from the main 
line at Mineola, and passes through one of the most beautiful por- 
tions of the island. The terminus is at Oyster Bay, the road having 
been extended recently from Locust Valley. To fully appreciate 
the beauties of this region one must leave the railroad and travel 
along the woodland roads, and from the hills and high blufifs view 
the numerous bays, inlets, and delightful vistas of blue waters, with 
the sails of vessels going up and down the Sound. Wherever one 
wanders among these wooded hills, if he is a lover of beauty, 
" He cannot err in this delicious land," 

for there is forest and bay, with distant hills and valleys, while all 
around him are surprises of pleasant dells, 

" With spots of sunny openings, and with noolcs 
To lie and nod in, sloping into brooks." 

Were these places unknown it would be fit to describe in detail 
their many advantages, but for years Roslyn, Sea Cliff, Glen 
Cove, and Oyster Bay have been written about in prose and verse, 
and their beauties delineated by the artist's pencil. Men of means 
have built palatial homes, and poets and authors have sought rest 
and quiet there. Who has not heard of Roslyn ? At the old toll- 
house at the summit of the hill, at the foot of which is Roslyn, one 
gets the first glimpse of the little town, which is memorable as 

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containing trie home where the poet Bryant lived and the grave where 
his ashes rest. The village is in the valley, divided by an inlet from 
Hempstead Harbor, which runs backward to the hills, and across 
which is a narrow causeway, over which the railroad winds. North- 
ward is a little stretch of marsh, which the tides keep sweet and 
clean, and beyond is the harbor, white with the sails of oystermen. 
In the distance, across the Sound, are the hills of Connecticut, 
and bounding the harbor on either side are great hills, thick 
with foliage, in which great estates and castles rise among the 
branches, and look off upon the waters of the bay. Half a mile 
or more on the road which lies eastward of the harbor is Cedar- 
mere, the home of Bryant. Here he wrote some of his best poems, 
and here he came when in mood of inspiration. The house is 
large and rambling, the frame being at least a century old. There 
are broad piazzas, quiet nooks and coverts, extensions and sub- 
extensions, and the house is high enough above the waters to get 
the effect of intervening lawns, yet not too far to hear the music 
of the waves. 'L'here is a great variety of trees about the place, 
with i\y and clambering vines, truly a poet's home, where in spring 

it learns to 

" Wear the green coronal of leaves, 
And a thousand suns could not add aught, 
(^f splendor in the grass." 



The grave of Bryant is in the village cemetery, about a mile 
away. The highest elevation on Long Island is the summit 
back of the village, and from the observatory which surmounts it 
can be seen the surrounding country for miles about. Roslyn has a 
paper mill, the oldest in the State, a flouring mill, a good hotel, 
and is a very popular place in summer. Beyond are Glen Head, a 



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OVERLOOKING THE HARBOR, GLEN COVE. 



picturesque and growing resort, and Sea Clift, possessing one of the 
most superb locations on all Long Island. The ground rises 
abruptly from the shore for several hundred feet, and upon the 
bluff which skirts the village can be had views of the Sound that for 
beautv cannot be rivalled. Cottages stud the banks, which rise tier 
upon tier after the manner of seats in an amphitheatre. Shade 
trees abound and make pleasant music to the touch of the winds 
that play among their branches. Well-constructed roads in every 
direction, shaded by large trees, afford opportunities for driving and 
riding. Knolls and hills, studded with many varieties of wild 
flowers, invite ascent. Sea Cliff is a very lively place in the summer 
season, and several hotels and numerous boarding houses are taxed 
to their utmost to acc:mmodate all the guests who seek admission, 
the largest hotel being the Sea Cliff House, first-class in appoint- 
ment, with accommodations for three hundred guests, while every 
year witnesses a large increase in the number of cottages owned by 
city people. The village was originally owned by the Sea Cliff 



Grove and Metropolitan Camp-Meeting Association, and after 
several years of vicissitudes the land passed out of the control of 
the Association, and the only cam])-nieetings now held are by 
the Methodists. It is needless to add that the boating and 
bathing are excellent. To the east by pleasant roads, is (den 
Cove, where a different condition of affairs is noted. The same 
beautiful scenery and bracing air is seen and felt, but the village 
presents the appearance of a busy and prosperous town, one that is 
not dependent in any. way upon the influx of city folks in vacation 
time. The Duryea Starch Factory is located there, giving employ- 







RESIDENCES OF CHARLES PRATT AND F. L. BABBOTT. 



ment to seven hundred people, and upon the l)usiness streets are 
other factories and many well-kept stores. The village is itself 
attractive, while the drives in every direction are surpassingly 
beautiful. Boarding houses and hotels are plentiful, but no more 
than sufficient to meet the demands of summer travel. 

Two miles away is the famous island of Dosoris, v.here the Hon. 
Charles A. Dana has a park in a high state of cultivation and a fine 
residence, which are constant sources of attraction to visitors. A sea 
wall over which hangs festoons of vines runs around the entire island. 
On the estate of the late Charles Pratt, one hundred and fifty acres 
directly on the Sound, and adjoining Mr. Dana's property, have been 
set aside for the agricultural department of the Pratt Institute, of 
Brooklyn. A course in practical and theoretical agriculture is given 
during the summer months of July and August, to young men above 
fifteen years of age, who are engaged in school work. It is not 
proposed to make farmers of them, but rather to give them an insight 
into the scientific principles and the operation of modern farm 
work. Recitations in chemistry, biology, physiology and kindred 
subjects are held daily, ar.d the rest of the time is de\oted to the 




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SEAWANHAKA YACHT CLUB. 



practical application of the theories involved. At Glen Cove, as well 
as at all these north side towns, there is always a cool breeze from 
the vSound at night, making a blanket an acceptable article. Excel- 
lent facilities are offered for boating and loathing. The fishing at all 
times is good, and from the middle of July to December many a 
pleasant day may be spent in hunting plover or bay snipe. At Locust 
Valley, a quiet village between the hills, and along the shores of the 
Sound one may find a pleasant abiding place. Among the curious 
old land-marks is the Friends' Academy, 
erected one hundred and twenty years ago, 
and endowed by Gideon Frost as a school 
for higher education. The main street is 
lined with wooden houses of an old-time pat- 
tern, and big locust trees which give abundant 
shade, while in every direction are pleasant 
walks and drives, and to those who seek a 
quiet retreat none more desirable can be 
found. A vacation home for poor women is 
conducted here by the Brooklyn Woman's 
Temperance Association. Near here is the 
charming settlement of Bayville. Notwith- 
standing the fact that the permanent residents - 
of Ovster Bay desired the extension of the 
railroad from Locust Valley, there were many 
among the summer visitors who opposed it, 
fearing that with the coming of the cars the 
quiet town would lose much of the exclu- 

siveness for which it had been noted. Such fears will doubtless 
prove to be groundless, for the class of people who bring discredit 
upon a place and make it common prefer to seek resorts nearer 




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FOX S ROCK, OYSTER BAY. 



the cities. Oyster Bay will remain just as exclusive and just as 
charming as in years past, when it was reached by a long and weari- 
some stage-ride. It is indeed a jjretty village, and it is not strange 
that property owners zealously guard its interests. Situated directly 
on a beautiful bay, the boating facilities are unsurpassed, a fact 
easily seen on a summer's day by counting the yachts and pleasure 
boats which harbor there. It 
is the headquarters for several 
prominent yacht clubs, and 
regattas and rowing races are 
frequently held during the sea- 
son. The drives are numerous 
and delightful. I'he place is 
noted for its many fine resi- 
dences. There are several old 
homesteads which played im- 
portant parts in the earh his- 
tory of the country, and many 
relics of colonial times are to 
be found. At one time the 
Quakers had a footinir here, 





STATION AT OYSTER BAY 



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as they did in the 
region for miles 
around. The Sea- 
wanhaka Yacht Club 
of New York have 
a fine club house 
and grounds on Cen- 
ter Island opposite 
Ovster Rpv. 




OYSTER BAY — LOOKING FROM THE HILL. 



On September 17, 1891, the Long Island Railroad began to run 
through trains to Boston and other eastern cities via Oyster Bay. 
This ex]:)eriment had been tried thirty years before when trains were 
run to Greenport and passengers transferred by steamboat to New 
London. The Oyster Bay route has been successful both as to the 
carrying of passengers and freight. From the station in Brooklyn 
a vestibuled train with Pullman coaches leaves daily, except Sunday. 
At Oyster Bay it is taken on the transfer steamer " Cape Charles," 
of the New England Terminal Co. across the Sound to Wilson 
Point, and then on the tracks of the Housatonic Railroad system 
and New York & New England Railroad to Boston. This new 
route is called the Long Island and Eastern States Line. 




COLD SPRING TO PORT JEFFERSON. 

ONI) Oyster Bay is Cold Spring, reached by the raih-oad of 
the Port Jefferson branch, which leaves the main lint- at 
.i>- Hicksville. No better evidence of the popularity of this 
place need be mentioned than the fact that the rush of 
"^' summer travel is so great that many visitors are turned 
away because of lack of accommodation, notwithstanding 
the large number of excellent hotels and boarding houses. 
Every year an attempt is made to meet this demand, but 
it has never yet been fullv accomplished. The ride from the depot 
to the village, about three miles, and to the harbor is picturesque at 
every point, and each turn of the road reveals some new surprise : it 
may be a trout pond hidden in the woods, or a bit of pastoral scenery, 
or a glimpse of the bay through an opening in the trees, or perhaps 
a handsome residence. And then the harbor itself is more than a 
surprise, it is a revelation. Whether seen from the surrounding 
hills or from the sandy beaches, it is an inspiring sight more beauti- 
ful than words can describe. Craft of every kind find safe harbor 
there. The fishing must be good, for there is located a fish hatcherv 




COI.D SPRING 



under the supervision of the New York Fish Commission, where 
each year are hatched thousands of brook trout, rainbow trout, 
land-locked salmon, lake trout, shad, whitefish, smelts, tom-cods,' 
lobsters, and Penobscot salmon. Since 1883, 47,377,612 fish have 
been distrilnited on Long Island from this hatchery. A well- 

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ecjuipped Biological Laboratory, under the auspices of the Brooklyn 
Institute, was started in the hatchery building in 1890, and has 
become a permanent affair. The school is open from Jt^'ly first to 
September first. Lectures are given semi-weekly on biological and 
scientific subjects, and experiments are made and instructions given 
by competent professors. On the terraced and wood-covered hills 
which bound the bay are large hotels which are provided with all 
modern conveniences. The Glenada, Laurelton Hall, and Forest 
Lawn are among the best known. In the past ('old Spring has 
been a manufacturing village of no small importance, and ruins of 
once extensive factories are visible. Up the valley are a series of 
lakes, and near them are several mineral springs which have medic- 
inal qualities of merit. The drives in every direction are beautiful, 
but none more so than the one that winds around Lloyd's Neck, 
having the Bay and Sound always in view. The land must be fertile, 
for all the farmers appear to be prosperous, and live in fine resi- 
dences not inferior to those occupied by gentlemen who reside for a 
portion of the year in New York. This neck, which geographically 
belongs to Suffolk, was recently cut off from Queens Countv bv an 
act of the Legislature and made a part of the town of Huntington. 
At the extreme end of the neck are the remains of an old fort, 
which in revolutionary times was occupied by the British troops. 

Huntington deserves notice apart from any claim it may have 
as a desirable place for summer homes. It has an activitv of its 
own which is not materially increased or diminished bv the tide of 
summer travel. Many local enterprises have contributed to its 
growth, and its prosperity to-day is greater than it has been at any 
time in the past. The academy of the village ranks high among 
the educational institutions of the State, and a public library has 
been established. The location of Huntington has been likened to 
the Roman Coliseum, and the com])arison is proper. The sur- 
rounding hills recede with fine gradations, and from their summits 
are views of Huntington Bay, Eaton's Neck, Lloyd's Neck, and 
Long Island Sound, and from one or two points Babylon, Islip, and 
Fire Island. The harbor is about a mile from the village, beautifully 
situated amid encircling hills^ its windings concealed from view, so 
that it resembles a mountain lake much more than an arm of the 
sea. It is usually dotted with yachts and boats that are kept in 
frequent use by the lovers of the waves. After the battle of Long 
Island, Huntington was selected by the English as a place for a 
garrison and permanent occupancy, and many relics in the place 
recall those memorable times. In the old burving-ground is a grave- 
stone marked bv a cannon l)all, and on Gallows Hill are remains 




of a fort. Huntington is growing rapidh 
as a resort. A large tract of land on the bav has 
been purchased by capitalists, who are making 
it a village of handsome residences clustered in 
a magnificent park. There are many large es- 
tates \iith fine houses and extensive gardens 
and lawns. West Neck is one of the ch-.rming 
points along the shore, and is already occupied 
by many wealth) New Yorkers. Mr. J. R. 
Maxwell is the owner of one hundred acres, where he has erected 
an elegant house. The grounds are laid out with great taste, and 
the estate ranks among the most notable of its class. Near the 
village is the Suffolk Driving Park, one of the best on the island. 
and every year becoming more ])opular. 

The scener.- about Centreport is much the same. It nestles 
among the hills and has a long stretch of the Sound penetrating 
far inland, and offers as good a vantage ground for an economical 
vacation as can be desired. (Ireenlawn is upon the elevated le\el 

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plain, amid beautiful fields and hard, smooth roads, about two miles 
south of Centreport. Summer breezes from the southwest always 
sweep this plain with delightful coolness. And then comes North- 
port, charmingly set around a harbor that makes in from Huntington 
Bay, which has often been likened to the Bay of Naples. It is as 
beautiful as any harbor in the land. So completely is it land-locked, 
that from the village it seems more like a great lake. The long 
semi-circle of Eaton's Neck, a spit of land shaped like a fish-hook, 
guards it from the Sound and makes it the safest of havens. Its 
entrance is narrow, but deep and easy of access. On either side 
of the harbor rise the hills, thickly crowned with forests, and at its 
head lies a green meadow. Northport once flourished with ship- 
building, and owned a fine fleet of vessels. Some part of the 
industry lingers, and until very recently vessels of eight hundred or 
one thousand tons have been launched from the stocks. The fleet 
now consists of a score or more of coasting schooners, and a swarm 
of oyster and fishing smacks and pleasure boats. Three shipyards 
are kept busy repairing and building. There is a large printing 
establishment, enterprising stores, two hotels, and several boarding 
houses. As a place of summer resort Northport is very popular 





CENTREPORT HARBOR. 



among the north side villages. Eaton's Neck, which scans both 
Sound and harbor, is a high peninsula and headland, where is 
located the famous Bacon farm and the palatial residence of the 
late Mr. C. H. Delamater. Duck Island is within easy distance, 
where e.xtensive improvements are now in progress. 

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Kings Park, the next place to Northport, is desti /.ed to become 
celebrated for its eleemosynary institutions. The late Dr. Muhlen- 
berg several years ago started the St. Johnland Home, a benevolent 
enter{)rise which embraces a variety of charitable objects, among 
which are the care and education of crippled and destitute children, 
the training of bovs r.nd girls, and a home for indigent, disabled, and 




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friendless old men. Commodious buildings, superbly located, were 
erected, and the institution, under the supervision of the Episcopal 
Church, has been and is productive of a great amount of good. 
The proper care and treatment of insane patients is a problem that 
confronts every country. Like the poor, the demented are "always 
with us," and humanity demands that they shall be properly cared for. 
To crowd thousands of insane people in our public asylums, as is too 
often done in many of the large cities, is not only a disgrace to our 
civilization, but a crime. Medical experts have shown that by the 
system of isolated cottages, with ])lenty of air and light about them, 
with a limited number of patients in each, reason is often restored 
to the unfortunates, a thing impossible in a crowded, asylum. Other 
countries have made this experiment with large success, and in one 
or two instances it has been tried to advantage in this country. The 
Kings County authorities determined some years ago to join in this 
movement of reform, and consequently purchased nine hundred and 
fifty acres of highly cultivated land at Kings Park, then called St. 
johnland, where they propose ultimately to bring all rheir insane 
patients, and, possibly, some of their poor-house inmates. The land 
borders on the water, is high, rolling, and well wooded, offering excel- 



lent facilities for drainage, and is within easy distance of the railroad. 
The first cost of the property was about $100,000. The present cost 
of the whole establishment has been over $2,500,000, and a large 
amount of money is yet to be expended. There are accommoda- 
tions for thirteen hundred insane people. It is expected that many 
of the patients will be able to assist in the cultivation of the land 
and in other forms of beneficial out-of-door labor. The New York 
City authorities have started a similar enterprise at Central Islip. 

This whole region in the vicinity of Kings Park, Smithtown, St. 
James, and Stoiiy Brook is covered with excellent farms, and, while 
it is a quiet rural district with small and unpretentious villages, it 
offers great attraction to a large class of city people who are seeking 
just such retreats. The Smithtown preserve of the Brooklyn Gun 
Club consists of seven hundred acres, and in addition five thousand 
ac^s leased of the farmers. The shores are fronted with 
precipitous cliffs, and the bays and inlets furnish superior boating, 
fishing, and bathing. The drives are among woods of tall and 
shapely trees and through green fields, while fresh-water lakes here and 
there make a summer pilgrimage a thing of great delight. A few 
hotels and many hospitable farm houses provide visitors with pleasant 
temporary homes. Stony Brook is an especially attractive village, 
stretching along the sloping side of a valley, with stores and churches 
and well-kept farms and many pleasant villas for summer use. There 
is a large hotel in the place. Beyond is Setauket, beautiful for 
situation, presenting a diversity of rural landscapes in which ram- 
bling bays, coves, inlets, glens, mill-ponds, wooded hills and sweeps 
of clear fields are picturesquely mingled. The fishing and hunting 
are something to tempt the most exacting sportsman. A large 
rubber goods manufactory gives employment to many people. To 
those who delight in ante-revolutionary relics, two quaint old shingled 
churches with burying-grounds containing moss-covered gravestones, 
will prove of interest. It is said chat when Washington visited this 
portion of Long Island he spent a night at Setauket, stopping at 
an inn kept by a zealous Tory. The General, so the story goes, 
did not make himself known until he was taking his departure, 
when he kissed the landlord's little daughter, saying to her that 
after he had gone she might tell her parents that George Washing- 
ton had kissed her. 

Two miles to the east is Port Jefferson, the terminus of the 
railroad. The main portion of the village is in a valley. The streets 
are irregular, and houses and stores have been built with slight regard 
to street lines and architectural grace. It is a curious and odd town, 
but strikingly interesting. The greatest charm is the harbor, one of 



the finest on the north shore. It is well protected by natural and 
artificial breakwaters, and serves the purpose of pleasure boats and 
large ships as well. Upon both sides are lofty hills covered with 
trees, with a commanding view of the Sound and the Connecticut 
shore. It is as a ship-building port that Port Jefferson is especially 
noted. A few old hulls, the frame of a half-completed vessel, and 
numerous shipyards give evidence of the activity that once existed 
and made Port Jefferson known the world over. The sailing ship 
has gradually given way to the steamer, and America has lost its hold 
on that once important industry of vessel-building. Port Jefferson 
has suffered with other places, but no town between New York and 
Boston, even now, both in building and rejjairing vessels, excels this 
quaint and enterprising village. Many associated industries exist. 
A steamer ferry crosses the Sound to Bridgeport daily during the 
summer season. There are fine views from its overlooking hills, 
while there are many quaint nooks and walks of great attractiveness 
to the visitor. The place has great charms for its residents, and a 
delightful social life exists. It has long been popular as a summer 
home, and its popularity has not been eclipsed by the attractions of 
newer resorts. 

Northwest of Port Jefferson harbor is Oldfield Point, a quiet 
place, known to many pleasure seekers, and to the east, beyond the 
railroad, are Mount Sinai, Miller's Place, Rocky Point, and Middle 
Island, retired country settlements, where visitors can find many 
charming summer homes. In the village of Mount Sinai is a tract of 
one hundred acres under control of the Crystal Brook Park Associa- 
tion, where it is proposed to build up a cottage community similar to 
the Twilight Park in the Catskills. Provision is also made for 
transient visitors w'ho seek health and re-creation. Special provision 
is made for the care of children. Dr. Jerome Walker, of Brooklyn, 
is in charge of the enterprise. The scenery is beautiful. 



We have taken our gentle readers with hasty flight through all 
the sections of the island that is dowered with so many charms. 
Only a touch of the foot here and there could be permitted by limit- 
ations of time and space. If the friends who have followed us in 
our hasty rambles will make their summer homes in some one of the 
many places of rest and beauty w^e have pictured, we are certain ihev 
will find that each day will reveal new graces ; for in this fair 
island 

" He wlio lingers longest is the happiest." 
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Long Island Railroad Ticket Offices 

IN NEW YORK; 

James Slip Ferry (toot of Chambers Street, East River). 
? Foot 34th Street, East River. 
? 71 Broadway. Astor House Ticket Office. 261 Broadway. 143 Bowery. 

?415 Broadway (B. & O. Office). 296 Canal Street. 

Cor. West 4th and Mercer Streets. 11 East 14th Street. 
?950 Broadway (near 23d Street). 
1313 Broadway, cor. 34th Street, and 53 West 125th Street, Harlem. 

BROOKLYN: 

? L. I. R.R. Station, cor. Flatbush and Atlantic Aves. 

L. I. R.R. Station, cor. Atlantic and Franklin Aves. 

333 P\ilton Street (near Court). 
L. I. R.R. Station, cor. Bushwick and Montrose Aves. E.D. 

115 Broadway (near Bedford Ave. E.F).) 

LONCt island CITY: 

? Long Island Railroad Station. 
? Parlor Car Seats may be secured at these offices. 



The stations of the Long- Island R.R. in New York and Brooklyn can be reached as follows: 

NEW YORK STATIONS. 

FOOT 34th STREET, E.R. 
Via 3d uikI 8«1 AVENVK ELEVATED LIXES IHKEOT TO FEKKY. 

And via the following Street Car Lines : 

4th and Madison Avenue Lines— transferring at 4th Aveni'.e and 33d Street 

direct to 34th Street Ferry. 
Cross Town Line— from Erie Railroad Ferry foot of West 23d St 
42d Street Line— from West Shore R.R. and N. Y. C. & H. R. R.R. and Grand 

Central Station. 

FOOT CHAMBERS STREET. E.R. 

Chambers Street Line — from Erie R.R. Ferry. Belt Line — from all ferries. 



BROOKLYN. 

Flatbush Avenue Station — corner Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, reached by 
Brooklyn Elevated Railroad (oth Avenue branch) from the Bridge, and Horse 
Car Lines from South, Wall Street, P^ulton and Catharine Street Ferries, and 
from Pennsylvania Railroad Annex. 

THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESS. 

The only Express for points on the Long Island Railroad will receive calls for 
Baggage and Express Goods in 

NEW YORK.— At foot of Chambers Street, E.R., foot of 34th Street, E.R., 
71 Broadway, 142 West Street, 296 Canal Street, corner West 4th and Mercer 
Sts. 211 East 14th Street, 950 Broadway, 1313 Broadway, 53 West 125th Street. 

BROOKLYN.— Flatbush Avenue Station, 333 Fulton Street and 115 Broadway, 
and give the same prompt attention. Baggage received in New York only 
at Stations foot Chambers Street, E.R. and ioot 34th Street, E.R. 



BAGGAGE CHECKED FROM RESIDENCE. 

The Long Island E.xpress will call for and check bagga^^e from residence to destination. 

Calls for this ssrvice may hs left at the following offices : 
NEW YORK —Foot Chambers Street (East River). Telephone call "423 Cortlandt," foot 34th 
St. (East River). Telephone call "'264 38th St." 296 Canal St. and 950 and 1313 Broadway. 
BROOKLYN.— Flatbush Avenue Station. Telephone call "301 Brooklyn." and 333 Fulton Street. 



SK^ OIvI:PP^ tlOXTSE, 




THIS spacious house accommodates 300 guests; situated on Hempstead Harbor, twenty- 
five miles from New York City, elevated 185 feet above the sea. From its wide verandas 
and commodious rooms are obtained extensive views of the Sound and the surrounding 
country, which, for healthfulness and picturesqueness is unsurpassed. A Bowling Alley, 
Billiard Room, Music Hall, and Lawn Tennis Court are connected with the Hotel, while 
boating, fishing, and still-water bathing, delightful walks and drives combine attractions 
for love-s of out-door life The Inclined Cable Railway from the Landing and Balh Houses 
to the Summit of the Blui=f secures a safe and erisy transit to the Hotel. For full informa- 



tion, apply at 74 West Thirty-fifth Street, New York. 



PEET & DAILEY. Proprietors. 



m-m\-m house and casino. 

Q.V Tllli AMKKU V\ VM» I'.l HOI'K.VX IM,.\>s. 

Far Rockaway, L. 1. 

Directly on the Sea-shore. Open from Ji'ne to October. 

All modern improvements, including sanitary plumbing, certified to by Board of Healfh, 

hot and cold, fresh and sea water baths on each fioar, electric light, gas, 

electric bells, speaking-tubes, fire escapes. Special Fire Service. 

Thirty-five minutes from N;w York via 34th Street and Long Island Railroad. 

■ T- ■: DEscRrKTivE Circulars Mailed on Application. 



D. ROCHE, Proprietor. 









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(^ §elGcf pamily j^bfel 



;2 miles from New York. Boating, Bathing, Fishing, Lawn Tennis 

Courts, Bowling, etc. Pooitively no mosquitoes or malaria. 

Orchestra daily. Terms moderate. 

W. B. GERARD, Proprietor. 





AN IDEAI. SUMMER RESORT! 

Romantic Moriches on the South Side of Lonff Island. 




^l' MOXEl- 

Centre Moriches, Long Island, N. Y. 

Greatly enlarged and improved the past season, will open June 15th, 1892. Location unsur- 
passed. Surl and still-water bathinjr, excellent boatinLC. First-class livery and interesting 
drives. Two hours from New York via Montauk Division, Long Island R.R. Parlor 
cars direct to hotel without change. Hotel beautifully situated on the Great Sou;h Bay 
and overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Service, attendance and cuisine of the highest 
order. Orchestral music morning and evening. Reasonable rates. Send for pamphlet. 

F. M. ROGERS, Prop 



SURF HOTEL. FIRE ISLAND BEACH. N. Y. The finest natu.-al Sea-shore Resort in Araerica. 
Invioforpting Breezes, Healthfulnessand (^uiet Enjoyment. Will be Opened June 18th. 1892. 




Advantages cf this place as a Summer Resort, are : First — Its pure sea breezes. Second — 
E.xcellent beach; superb surf and still-water bathing. Third— At the very doors of the hotel 
you may revel in the sand or sea. Fourth — Sailing and Fishing in the waters of the Great 
South Bay and Ocean. Fifth — Sufferers from " hay fever " or " rose cold "' can o'jtain relief. 
Sixth — A certain relief for catarrh. Seventh — For children it is a paradise. Eighth — Here 
may be enjoyed all the beneficial effects of the ocean. Ninth — The air is always cool. 
Tenth — Pure water, e.xcellent drainage, lighted with gas, and has accommodation for 400 
guests. Ten cottages connect with the hotel. Eleventh— No chills or malarial fever. 
Rooms secured by telegraph. Through Tickets, and Baggage checked to Hotel. Trains 
will leave L. I. City 8.30 A.M. and 4.30 P.M. 

D. S. S. SA^UMIS & CO. 



RE-CREATION, NOT DISSIPATION, 

AND COMFORT RATHER THAN STYLE 



.■\RE THE .M.MS 



CRYST.A.I. BROOK, 

A beautiful country rest resort and a co-opsrative cottage community, on the Noi th Shore 
of Long Island, only fifty-eight miles from New York and Brooklyn. It is a healthful place 
naturally and will fie kept healthful. It is beautiful, and the artificial will not replace the 
natural. It is restful; you can ride, walk, row, sail, fish, photograph, sketch, indulge in 
out-door sports, or lounge — more than you can do at most places. There are song birds, 
shaded and beautiful spots, good food, good company. Last, but not least. Crystal 
Brook is accessible. 

For further information, apply to 

JEROME WALKER. M.D. 

Gen I Siifi't and Medical Director. 

8 Seventh Ave. cor. Park Place, Brooklyn. 



pRosPKCT hoitsp: axd cottagp:s, 

BAY SHORE, L. I. 

This Hotel accommodates 3^0 guests ; has all modern improvements, electric lights and 
bells in each room ; located on the e-xpansive Great South Bay, directly opposite Fire 
Island. Steam connection twice a day. 

D. FRANKEL, Proprietor. 

.•\ddress. Clarendon Hotel, Washington and Johnson Streets, Brooklyn. 



Directly on the Great South Bay. 

JAMES V, KIRBY, Proprietor. 

EAST MOF^ICHES, SUFFOLK COUNTY, N Y • ■ ■ ■ ' 



THE ORIGINAL COMPANY. 

The Guarantee Company 

OF NORTH AMERICA. 

Cash Capital, $300,000, Assets and Resources, over $1,000,000, 

BONDS OF Sll^ETVSHIP ^■•-Bf:sr^fir^'^''''^'™^^"^^ "''^°^"^'^ 

New York Office, - No. 1 1 1 Broadway. 

E. RAWLINGS, I'ice-Frcs. D.J. TOMPKINS, Secretary. 



HOTEL AND YACHT SUPPLIES A SPECIALTY. 



PARK & TILFORIX 

IMPORTERS, JOBBERS AND RETAILERS OF 

FINEST GROCERIES 

DELICACIES FOR THE TABLE, 

CHOICE WINES, LIQUEURS, Etc. 
PRESERVED FOODS of Best Quality in extensive variety. 

Large Stocks of carefully selected CANNED GOODS. 
BOLI> & CO'S Special Sec Extra, 

a very superior Reims Champagne. 

HAVANA CIGARS imported weekly. 
PERFUMERIES AND TOILET SUNDRIES FROM 

THE LEADING EUROPEAN MANUFACTURERS. 



NEV/ YORK. 



THE CELEBRATED 



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HOLLYWOOD WHISKEY. 



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Orders Received at the Company's Oefices, 
-NEV yoKK,.- 

M. O'BRIEN & SON, 
Produce Dealers. 

JOSEPH H. LESTER & CO. 

TEAS 

ir2 WAl^h STREET, 

New York City. 
jMi. w. BUTLEK. Telephone Call, 1977 Cortlandt, john baier. 

BUTLKK c^ BAUER, 

BUTTER AND CHEESE, 

122, 123, 129 & 130 'Wasbiugton Market, - - - - NEW YORK. 

Fancy FJcrin and Pliiladelphia Creameries a Specialty. 



^EINECKE & CO. 

BUTCHERS and PACKERS, 

* 
ig6 & igS Fulton Street, 

NEW YORK 



GEO. B. WEAVER, 

Managing Direct o;-. 







Real ESTATE'. 



Why do all the peuple who travel on the LonCT Island Railroad look out of the windows 
as thev pass through 

MORRIS PARK ? 

Because, spread out before the delig-hled eyes of the passengers is one of the most charming 
and picturesque views imaginable. 

MORRIS PARK, sold by order of William Ziegler, Ksq., is on the Atlantic Avenue 
Rapid Transit and the Long Island Railroad, iust beyond Brooklyn. It possesses all such 
conveniences as 

WATER, SHADE TREES, SIDEWALKS, 

Fire Department, Club House, Etc. It's a 
REFINED SUBURB FOR REFINED PEOPLE, 

And, best of all, the man of moderate m;ans can afford to buv here, for the lots cost from 
$130 apiece up, and may be paid for in monthly instalments. Titles insured. 

Maps and free passes from 

JER.E. JOHPiiSO^i, JR. 

189 & 191 Montague Street, 60 Liberty Street, 

BROOKLYN. NEW YORK. 




DAVID L HARDENBROOK, 

Lono Island Reai Estate Huctioneer 
and Insurance floent. 



ESTATES MANAGED. 



21 FULTON ST. JAMAICA, LONG ISLAND 

ana opf-ositc L. I. R.R. Dcf>ot. 

Brooklyn Office. 110 SEVENTH AVENUE, 

TELEPHONE, 59 SOUTH. 



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Twjo I^eautiful 

Inland [^al^es 



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CONNECTED WITH 



The Great South Bay 

BY A SYSTEM OF LOCKS 

Which permit the passing of small craft of every description 
FROM THE LAKE WATERS INTO THE BAY. . . . 

The quintessence of comfort and satisfaction is thereby afforded 
to every resident 

'i'his property, a i^art of the great estate of THE NE^^' 
YO RK AND BRO OKLYN SUBURBAN INVESTMENT 
COMPANY OF NEW YORK, lies midway between Patchogue 
and Bellport, and has no duplicate in the whole world. 

J^or maps and particulars apply to 

Be new YorR aim Srookiijii Suhortiaii Invesimem Go. 

of llew Yort, 



44 BROADWAY. 



NEW YORK CITY. 



Greater |iew York and Long isiaim Improveiem Go. 



CHAS. L. SICARDI, 
HENRY Fk. KOCH, 



Proprietors. 

48 BROADWAY, - - BROOKLYN. 



Magnificent Lots 25x100 along main road of Long Island Railroad, #35.00 and upwards. 

No scrub oak. No swamp, but lovely level land covered with nature's green 

carpet. Only a few miles from Brooklyn. 

C'oiiiiiiiitatloii 9 t'eiit« Xiiiiieroiis Trains. 

LOTS AT ARISTOCRATIC WESTBURY, $35.00. 

LOTS AT LOVELY MINEOLA PARK, $35-oo. 

Apply 48 BROADWAY, - BROOKLYN 

H. C. SMITH & SON, 
REAL ESTAl'E and INSURANCE 

SEA CLIFF, L. I. 

Improved and unimproved property in great variety, for sale at rtasnnable prices. 
Houses to let Icr the season or by the year. 



OFFICE AT SEA CLIFF PHARMACY. 

HJ^N'RY^ E. ASM US, 

=^=^=- REA L ESTATE 

PROPERTY ON AND NEAR ^ ^ -f^j^rr T T,^ T T 

■1 HE BAY A SPECIAL/ Y. O-fi -i \ ± ±J 1^ t-i , ±J . J.. 



GEO. H. THAGHER S GO. 



M.WUFACTURERS OF 



Cast Iron Car Wheels 



STEAM, ELFXTRIC AND CABI^E USE. 



ESTA BLISHED 1852 



Plate and Window Glass 

HOLBROOK BROTHERS. 

85, 87, S!> B,;-kni:in Street, | >,/ r \a/ VDDI/- 
S3. SS Cliff Street, | l^tlVV JUhK. 

IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 

FNeNcH, ENgLISH ^^ AMERICAN 

Window and Plate Glass 

ALSO 

Embossed Glass, Ground Glass, Cathedral Glass, 
Greenhouse Glass. 

ROUGH GLASS FOR FLOORS AND SKYLIGHTS A SPECIALTY, 



FACTORIES: nni TO FACTORIES: 

CLEVELAND, OHIO. |)yL| Qi UNIONVILLE, CONN. 

THE UNION NUT CO. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Machine, Carriage, Tire, Stove, Sink, Shackle, and Bolts 

IIF EVERY DESCRIPTION, ALSO 

Square and Hexagon Nuts, Lag Screws and Washers, 

Boxwood and Ivory Rules, Try Squares 

and T Bevels, Iron Planes, 

4Jf>l-UMBS 4 AND * 1-EVEl-S. 14* 



WAREROOMS AND OFFICES, j tTPlI' \l (WWf CtlTXI ( J. L. VARICK, 

ASST TREAS. 



No. 107 Cliailiers Street, 



NEW YORK CITY. 



I ^^M V.^^ ) T.SMITH, 

NO, 91 Me Street ^ -N. L- ( 



AssT Sec 



A. S. UPSON, Pres. S. FRISBIE, Vice-Pres, 



WORLD'S Columbian Exposition. 



After the most thorough investigation ever made into the subject of block signals 
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY HAS ADOPTED THE HALL 
SYSTEM OF AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC SIGNALS for the protection of their entire 
WORLD'S FAIR TRAFFIC on their eight tracks from CHICAGO to GRAND 
CROSSING and four tracks from GRAND CROSSING to KENSINGTON. 

THE CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY HAS ADOPTED 
THE HALL SYSTEM for the block signaling of their Galena, Milwaukee & Wisconsin 
divisions, 87 miles of double track, 2di block signals, and also providing protection for 
188 switches. 



THE HALL SIGNAL COMPANY, 

William P. H.\ll, Pres. W. S. Gilmore, Treas. Melville P. Hall, Sec'y. 

S. Marsh Young, General Agent. C. W. Brewster, Sales Agent. 

Henry Bezer, Mechanical Signal Engineer. A. J. Wilson, Sup't Electr'I Construction. 

W. W. Salmo.v, Signal Engineer. 

General Offices, 50 Broadway, New York. 
Western Office, 340 The Rookery, Chicago, III. 



M. F. WYNN, President. H. G. HOMER, Secretary. CHAS. L. PITTS, Treasurer. 
OWEN McBREEN, Superintendent. 

Ne%v York Roofing Co. water-tight floors . 

GRAVEL ROOFING. 

DEALERS IN 

TWO AND THREE-PLY EELT. BEACH GRAVEL, 

ROOEING EELT, SHEATHING PAPER, COAL TAR, Etc. 

Office: 49 GREENPOINT AVENUE, BROOKLYN, E. D. 

TKLEPHONE CALL, GREENPOINT, 4 F. 



The Eppinger & Rossell Creosoting Works, 

FIRST STREET & NEWTOWN CREEK, LONG ISLAND CITY. 

New York Office, 160 Water Street. 

CREOSOTED TIMBER OF ALL KINDS FURNISHED. 

Dead Oil of Coal Tar Process. 

GEORGE s. Valentine, Manager. 

FKACTICAI. EXPERIENCE SINCE 1872. 

Sole Agent for the Macdonald Electrical Subway Conduit. 

THE LARGEST CREOSOTING PLANT IN THE WORLD. 



F. H. LOYELL & CO. 

118 JOHN STREET. N. Y. 

Chimneys, Burners, Lamps, Wicks, &c. 

A'^riie most recent and most perfect centre 
^^^^^^^^^^^ draft lamp. jSend for a sample. 



$2.00 each net or |i(S.oo per doz. 



The "MOGUL' 



If your Dealer has not got them, send 

TO us DIRECT. 

SHADES, PRISMS, LANTERNS, ERUIT JARS. 



TOLEDO, OHIO. Inj)? irrr r <: A^ NEPTUNE 

MONTPELIER, OHIO.S^-'^'^'^"^^^- -j^ ANCHOR WORKS. 

De Grauw, Aymar & Co. 

M.\NUFACTURERS AND IMIHIKTERS OF 

Cordage, Oakum, \A^ire Rope, Chains, Anchors, Oars, 

Blocks, Buntings, Flags, Cotton and Flax 

Ducks, Russia Bolt Rope. 

MARINE HARDWARE AND SHIP CHANDLERS' GOODS GENERALLY, 

Kos. 34 S: 35 SOUTH STREET, NEW YORK. 

Dudley G. Gautier. Telephone, 500 Cortlaadt William C. Pearson. 

STEEL WAREHOUSE, 
D. G. GAUTIER & CO. 

114 John Street, - New York City. 

SELLING AGENTS FOR 

SANDERSON BROS. STEEL CO. 

Best Tool Steel. Self-Hardening Tool Steel. Extra \Varrantecl Too! Steel. 
Steel of Every Description. 



NEW YORK BELTINGSc PACKING CO. 



John H. Cheever, Manager. (Limited.) 15 PARK ROW, NEW YORK. 

Oldest and Larg^est Mfrs. in the V. S. of 

VULCANIZED RUBBER FABRICS 

FOK MECHANICAL PI 14 POSES. 

RUBBER BELTING, PACKING AND HOSE, 



liiiiiiiif/^ 




MATTING and STAIR TREADS 
for HALLS, FLOORS, STONE 
and IRON STAIRWAYS, etc. 



tr 



/^ARPE 



TINGS, -^^ 



OIL CLOTHS, LIKOLEITMS. 
MATTIKGS, RUGS, 

LACE CURT A IKS, 

AND 

UPHOLSTERY GOODS. 

JLll g'Todes and styles are sJioicni in oxir sioch 
in such xiaricfy that stiifahlc dcsig'iis and coloring's 
can always he secured . 

W. & J. SLOAN E, 

BROADWAY, 18th & IQtli Sts. • NEW YORK. 



G. L STUEBNER & CO. 




M.iVNUF.ACTURERS OF 



SELF-DUMPING STEEL 



IRON HOISTING TUBS, _Q^ 



Side, End and Bottom Dumping Cars 

for Coal Elevators, Iron Wheelbarrows, 

Hoistin<j; Blocks, Etc. 
LOXG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 

Sf,nd for Circular and Price List. 




Ye;i.i.o\v Pine Company, 



Principal Office, 



16 beavp:r strekt, xtiw york 



Telephones, 2070 and 2104 Cortlandt. 



YARDS AM) MILLS: 



New York— Foot Bethune Street, formerly A. T. Decker & Co. ; Foot East 96th Street, formerly A. B. 
Johnson X Co ; 125th Street and First Avenue, formerly Rapp & Johnson Lumber Co. 

Brooklyn' and Long Islaxd City— Hamilton and Prospect Avenues, formerly South Brooklyn Saw 
Mill Co.; Foot North Second Street, formerly C. W. Wilson ; Long Island City, opposite 34th Street Ferry, 
New York, formerly E. W. McClave & Co. 

HoBOKEN— Opposite 14th Street Ferry, New York, formerly C. L. Buck! & Co. 

SlocK Cmnpilses 25.000.000 Feel Fioilda and fieoigla Yellow Pine. 

TIMBER, PLflNK, STEP PLflNK, FLOORING, ETC. 

Orders Proniptly Filled by Team, Lighters or Rail, at all 
Accessible Points. 

WHITE PINE, YELLOW PINE, and OAK 

SAWED TO ORDER. 





RAILROAD 
TIES. 



^ TRADE 1 



MARK 



VANDERBlLTc^ HOPKINS, 
120 Liberty Street, New York. 



B. R JAYNE & CO, 



WHOLESALE DEALERS IN 



ANTHRACITEmBITUMINOUS 




JVo. 66 SozztK street, 

New York City. 



COAL DELIVERED ON ALL PARTS OF LONG ISLAND, 
IN CARS, DIRECT FROM MINES, 

VIA LONG ISLAND RAILROAD. 



lVilkes-Barn\ Plyuiouth Red Ash, 

Honey Brook Lehigh, 

Lykeiis Willey Red Ash, 

Philadelphia Cf Reading Coal & Iron 

Company s Coals, 

Georo-es Creek Cinnberland. 



STICKNEY, CONYNGHAM & CO. 



AQENTS KOR 



Franklin Coal of Lvkens Valley, 

SUSQUEHANNA White and Red Ash, 

KINGSTON White Ash, CAMERON SHAMOKIN, WILKES-BARRE, 

GAYLORD White and Red Ash, 

WYOMING aqd EUREKA BITUMINOUS COALS. 



1 Broadway, New York, 19 Congress St. Boston, 

225 Walnut St Philadelphia. 



p. O. Box 2379, NEW Yof 



P. O. Box 3153, BosTOr 



AMERICAN RAILWAY SUPPLY COMPANY. 

Successors to Hoole Manufactiring Comtanv, 

24 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK, 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Baggage, Hotel and Factory Checks. 

METAL BADGES with Raised LETTERS, STRUCK from Dies. 

METAL BADGES, WITH Sunk Letters, Filled with Enamel. 

Medals of Every Description. Uniform Buttons for Corporations. Write for Prices. 




CHWARZWAELDER & CO. 

37 & 39 FULTON STREET, 



-NEW YORK CITY, 



Ma nil fact /Iters of the Most Iiiiproi'cd 

Office Desks and Furniture. 



^I'ECIAI. DESIGNS FOR OFFICE INTERIORS FURNISHED 
ON APPLICATION. 

Send for Catalosjue and mention this book. 




^\ Hct pave m e NT am //> 



^J'riE gxAi^DARD Pavement of P[/viericaIi 

THE TRINIDAD ASPHALT PAVEMENT 

LAID BV 

The Barber Asphalt Paving Co. 

During the last fourteen years, combines 

Cl^EAWl^INESS, 

1>f O IS E 1. ESS rC ESS, 

MEALXM FULNESS. 

FO(y/? HUNDRED AND TEN MILES LAID 
IN THE UNITED STATES, AND ALL IN FIRST-GLASS ORDER. 

THE BARBER ASPHALT PAVING CO. 

General Office, 1 Broadway, Ne^^r York, N. Y. 



Walter T, Klots & Bro's Sons, 



DEALERS IN 



Lime, Lath, Brick .^'Masons' Materials, 

FIRE BRICK, FIRE MORTAR, ETC. 



Best facilities for shipping- material to all points on the Island by the L. I. R.R.'from 
Long Island City and Bushwick Stations, either in part or in full cargoes. 



Main Office, Meserole St. and Morgan Aue. Brooklyn. 

YARDS — Meserole Street and Newtown Creek; Wallabout Canal, foot of Rodney Street. 
BROOKLYN, E. D. 



TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS. 



CxEORGE H. SKIDMORE, 
m ^rebiteet # 

RIVERHEAD, - - - N. Y. 



FINK 




ALL KINDS OF OUTING CAPS. _ 

" As the twiar is inclined so does the tree grow." 

FAXHERS AND MOTHERS 

II. ACE A FEW T.\RLET.^ ciK 

Adams' Pepsin Tutti-Frutti Gum 

0)1 your taJtlc, chcxv about fii'c iiiin.ut<'s offer each lueal, 
you jjill find Unit IXDIGESTIOX ami DYSPEPSIA xvUl be 
a straiigcr in voiir household: 



CLARK & ALLEN, 



\VHOLES.\LE DEALERS IN 



C(rai9, /T\eal apd peed, 



A. CLARK, ) 

E. A. ALLEN. ( 



FOOT EAST 23d STREET, 

New York. 



MARSH, \VHITE & CO. 

MANHATTAN MILLS, 

CORN, MEAL, OAXS, FEEO, ETC. 

FOOT OF QUAY STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 

28 Water St. New York. 



«< BFtOOX^r-YN »^- 



Elevator & Milling Company. 

Storage Capacity, 400,000 Bushels. 

Grinding Capacity, 200 Tons per day. 



Offices, 86 & 88 Kent Avenue, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 



L. M. Valmkr, Pn-sitfeiit. 

H. U. Palmer. rice-Presidoit. 

Chas. F. Have.mever, Si'c. <5r° Tri'as. 

John H. Fokt, Maiiagi 



M. B. WYNKOOP. H. C. HALLENBECK. 

Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 

GEOER/ID PFinTERS. 

Fine Book and Illustrated Printing, 

Time Tables, Map Folders. &c. 



SPECIAL DEPARTMENT FOR 



(aiiroail Piling BlanK Book iQanulaoturi, 

441, 443, 445 & 447 PEARL STREET, 

NEW YORK. 

SPECIAL IVOTICE. 

We have removed to our new eight-story fire-proof building, 441, 443, 
445, 447 Pearl Street, corner of William, where our facilities for complet- 
ing the largest orders in all kinds of railroad printing are equal to the best 
in the country. 



FECirsIlA.LL OF FJHLARMJlC^, 

GEO. L. PECK, 

JAMAICA, - - - LONG ISLAND 

PURE DRUGS, GENUINE PATENT MEDICINES, IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC FANCY GOODS, SURGICAL 

APPLIANCES. THE BEST ASSORTMENT ON LONG ISLAND, 

AT FAIR PRICES FOR BEST GOODS. 

Prescriptions Compo-anded Day or Kight l)y Competent Pharmacists. 



p/ANOS, ORGANS & SEWING MACHINES 

Sold on Easy Tern-|S. Send for Prices and Circulars. 
LOUIS CHEVALLIER, 

146 GRAHAM AVENUE, near Bushwick Station, 1 

136 GREENPOINT AVENUE, ) BROOK IvY N. 



IP. -R,. THIIPLEII?, & OO- 

o< MEN'S • OUTFITTERS, >« 

FLATBUSH AND ATLANTIC AVENUES. 0//. L. /. R.R. Depot, - - BROOKLYN. 

BROADWAY &. SPRING ST NEW YORK. 



Express and Business Wagons. 



THE LENGERT COMPANY 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD OF 

EXPRESS WAGONS, "Specially." 




PHILADELPHIA. 



NEW YORK. 



THE LENGERT COMPANY, 

Tv^elfth, Locust and Spruce Streets, 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



KI N E a RAD E 

EXPRESS, IT J \ n / \ Y C ^'^^^^ p^"" 

BUSINESS, VV Al lU Avj. ORXAMEXTAL 

Improved Omnibuses and Transfer Coaches. 

ESTABLISHED 184.0. 
HiKheHt Premiums A.Avarc]e<] at all Exhibitions. 




National Wire and Ventilator Works." 

(established 1B52.) 
WAREHOUSE : 

45 FULTON ST. NEW YORK CITY. 

HOWAR^& MORSE, 

MANlFACrrRERS OF 

Wire-ClotH, Wire-Work, Wire-Fence, 

Artistic Solid Brass Office Railing, 



Corner Hay-Rack. 
Left hand . 




Hay-Rack. 
Right hand. 



Blackman's Patent Power Ventilator. 
WHEEL OB AIR PROPELI.ER AND THE PATENT HIGH SPEED 
SOLANO STEAM ENGINE. 




Double Gates 



Wire Fence 
Guards or Railing, No. 12 



Wn TAKE. RIGHT HOLD 
or YOUR HOME OR HOTEL 
AND FURNI5H IT FROM 
TOP TO BOTTOM! 




5R00KLVN,N.Y. 



" y\3I^A[lAM- 



STTEEl- ARlVrOT? T>ROTECTED MOSE. 



PERMANENT GF 



rENTED SEPTEMBER I, 1685- 



" FOUR ace; 

"GIANT," 
" GRANITE," 

"EDEN," 
"SHAWMUT- 



Brands of Hydraulic, Steam, 
Air Drill, Water, Garden, and 
Suction House. 



"List Price is the 

SAME AS FOR HoSE 

NOT Wired. 




The wire can be cut at any part 

and it will not uncoil. 
It is impossible for the hose to 

kink or burst. 
Covering poor hose with wire 

does nut make it good. 
The wire is worthless if the 

hose is poor. 
Good hose covered with wire 

is made very strong. 
We can supply any size wanted. 



Write for 
-Discount?. - 



Patented Sept. I, 1885. 
REVERE RUBBER CO. 64 READE STREET, NEW YORK. 



G. F. HALLOCK, 

Real Estate and Insurance, 

Main Street. Bridgehampton. Long Island. 

farms, village residenxes, ocean and bay froxts for sale. 

furnished cottage to rent. 

Three Hundred Acres of Ocean Front Property in Lots from 3 to 30 Acres. 
EAST END LONG ISLAND PROPERTY A SPECIALTY 

SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 



—Go To- 



mi 



FOR ALL KINDS OF 



GARDEN HOSE, 

L.A^A^N SPRINKLERS. 
HOSE REELS, 
HOSE PIPES, 

HOSE MENDERS, 

83 CHAMBERS STREET, 

NEW YORK CITY. 




\. ihwil^fiiia iiamii^iMMli 1 





I. H. DAHLMAN, 

EMPIRE 

SmE m ExcHJNCE Stibles, 

Horses of all descriptions always 

on hand and will be sold on 

reasonable terms. 

203, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 214, 
224, 226 

EAST 24th STREET, 

Telephone 18th St. No. 325. NEW VOKK. 



THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESS 

The only Express for points on the Long Island Railroad will receive calls 
for Baggage and Express Goods in 

NEW YORK: 

At foot of Chambers Street, East River, Foot of 34th Street, East River, 71 
Broadway, 142 West Street, 296 Canal Street, Corner West 4th and Mercer 
Streets, 11 East 14th Street, 950 Broadway, 1313 Broadway, 53 West 125th 



Street. 



BROOKLYN; 



Flatbush Avenue Station, 333 Fulton Street, and 115 Broadway, 

and give the same prompt attention. Baggage received only at James Slip 
and 34th Street Ferries in New York, and at the L. L R.R. Stations in Brook- 
lyn and Long Island City. 




.JOHHSj^ll 



WOaXD PAtNTS 




HESE Paints are in every respect the most desirable that 
can be used, being composed of the best and purest 
materials obtainable. Their use upon hotels, and all classes of 
buildings, has met with highly satisfactory results. 

We are pleased to answer incjuiries from all who contemplate 
painting their houses; to make suggestions regarding colors to be 
used, and give estimate of quantity and cost of Paints necessary. 
Correspondents will please give particulars regarding size, style, 
situation and surroundings of their 1)uildings, and send photograph 
when possible. 



Our Saniples and Pamphlet " EXTERIOR DECORATION" 
will be sent free by mail on application. 



H.W.JohxsMtgCo. 

87 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK. 



SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF 

H. W. JOHNS' Roof and Railway Pa-nts, Fire-Proof Pairits, Colors iq Oil 

Varriisl^es, Wood Stains, Graiqmg Colors, Fire- Proof Asbestos 

Roofing, Asbestos SF\eathiqg, Buildiqg Felt, Steam Pipe 

Boiler Co'.erings, Plastic Stove Lining, etc. 



JERSEY CITY, 

LONDON, 



CHICAGO, PHILADELPHIA, 

BOSTON, ATLANTA. 



MASURY'S 
HeacUj-Made "Railroad" Paints 

The only Standard Line of Tiqted Colors iq Paste Fornq. 

These Paints are intended for every description of Exterior and Interior Painting, and 
are especially recommended for economy and durability. Warranted. 

PURE UNSEED OIL PAINTS. 

— ALSO — 

Masury*s Liq^iicl Colors 

THE BEST IN THE WORLD. 
No Chemical Combination or Soap Mixture. Warranted. 



Pure Linseed Oil Paints 

Ready for application without other manipulation than simply stirring with a 
stick to render the mass of like consistency. 



SAMPLE CARDS FREE UPON APPLICATION. 



JOHNW. MASURY& SON, 

fjew) yorl^ and gjbicago, 



MANUF.^CTURERS OF 



HOUSE PAINTS IN OIL, 

Superfine Colors in Japan, for Coach and Car Work, 

ARTISTS' COLORS IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES, 

WOOD STAINS AND 

Fine Coach and Railway Varnishes. 



HEN ''OUT ON LONG ISLAND" and needing Paint, 



TI?Y TME 

CHILTON. 

This is a Paint most carefully made with the best Linseed 
Oil, and in case vou have never used it vou can find out its 
(juality from plent\' C)f people who are acquainted with its character. 
For color cards and prices inquire of local agents, among whom are : 



M, G. V/IGGINS St CO. Patcliogue, L. I 
JOHN H, PHILLIPS, East Quogue, L.I 



CLOCK BF^OS. 
DeVINE BROS. 
H. H, HALL, 
W. H. BENHAM, 
WM. BF^ODIE, 



Islip, L. I 

Syosset, L.I 

Breqtwood, L. I 

Centerport, L. I 

- L. I. City, L. I 



EDWARDS Bf^OS. Sag Harbor, L. 

J. L. VALENTIJ^E, Brool<haven, L. 

SEELEY BROS. Southampton, L 

D. KEESLER, - Stony Point, L. 

E. S. BF^OW|s], S^\elter Island H'ts, L. 
B. y\. GRIFFIJM, East Williston, L. 
KETCHUIV & DAY, - Amityville, L, 



-Or Send Direct to- 



CHILTON PAINT CO. '^ 



o. 147 Fulton Street. 

NEW YORK. 



FVDEVOESCQ 

c:.TAE.U5HED-IC;i2. 

nANnPACTOKHK? • OF 



ARTI^TVMATERIALT 
HoUyEPAIHTERV-CoLoR^ 
FIHE-VARMI^HE^ H 



vrV^^ C0RK:5P0nDEnC£-IMVITED*CflTAL0GUt5-Of-OaR 

^^^ Of riCES i FtlLTOM -STREET • COR. 
M,VILL1AM^» MEW YORK (^^g§^ 




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ESTABLISHED 1832. 



INCORPORATED tB82. 



\^\LENTINE & COMPANY 

57 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 



CHICAGO, 



BOSTON, 



PARIS. 



HENRY C. VALENTINE, 

Fresident. 

C. S. Homer, jr. 

Vice-President 



L. FAIRBANKS, 

Secretary. 

Chas. B. BECKWITH, 

Treasurer. 



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